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RETURN

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

RETURN is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

RETURNS-s 5 RETURNING-ing 11 RETURNED-ed 11

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

RETURNER 11 RETURNERS 11 RETURNABLE 11 RETURNABLES 11 RETURNABILITY 11 RETURNABILITIES 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo come or go back (to a place or person).
    • Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.
  2. intransitiveTo go back in thought, narration, or argument.
    • To return to my story[…]
  3. intransitiveTo recur; to come again.
    • Winter returns every year.
  4. intransitiveobsoleteTo turn back, retreat.
  5. obsoletetransitiveTo turn (something) round.
  6. transitiveTo place or put back something where it had been.
    • Please return your hands to your lap.
  7. transitiveTo give something back to its original holder or owner.
    • You should return the library book within one month.
  8. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
  9. transitiveTo reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
    • Hello, I’m just returning your call. What did you want to talk about?
  10. transitiveTo take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
    • Yeah, it’s $600,000 but, if it doesn’t work, you can always return it. As long as it’s undamaged and in the original packaging, I’ll give you a full refund.
  11. To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
    • The player couldn’t return the serve because it was so fast.
  12. To play a card as a result of another player’s lead.
    • If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.
  13. To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
  14. transitiveTo say in reply; to respond.
    • to return an answer; to return thanks; “Do it yourself!” she returned.
  15. intransitiveTo relinquish control to the calling procedure.
  16. transitiveTo pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
    • This function returns the number of files in the directory.
  17. datedtransitiveTo retort; to throw back.
    • to return the lie
  18. transitiveTo report, or bring back and make known.
    • to return the result of an election
  19. CommonwealthbroadlydatedTo elect to a certain office.
    • he was returned as a Member of Parliament
  20. To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of returning.
    • I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.
  2. countableuncountableA return ticket.
    • Do you want a one-way or a return?
  3. countableuncountableAn item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
  4. countableuncountableAn answer.
    • a return to one’s question
  5. countableuncountableAn account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
    • election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold
  6. countableuncountableGain or loss from an investment.
    • It yielded a return of 5%.
  7. countableuncountableA report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
    • Hand in your return within 90 days of the end of the tax year.
  8. countableuncountableA carriage return character.
  9. countableuncountableThe act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
  10. countableuncountableA return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
  11. countableuncountableA return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
    • The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.
  12. countableuncountableA roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
  13. countableuncountableThe act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
  14. countableuncountableA throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
  15. countableuncountableA short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
  16. countableuncountableThe continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
    • A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.