refund

Other forms of refund

plural

refunds·

past tense

refunded·

present participle

refunding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about refund

What does refund mean?

refund means "money returned to a payer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refund?

refund has 2 syllables: re-fund. The stress falls on "fund". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfʌnd/.

What is another word for refund?

Close synonyms include repayment, return, repay, give back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is refund a common word?

refund is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with refund?

2 words rhyme with refund. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.