rent: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 4 letter points · starts with R · ends with T
Meaning of rent
noun
- countable, uncountable
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
Example: I am asking £300 a week rent.
- countable, uncountable
A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
- countable, uncountable
A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
Example: A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
- countable, uncountable
An object for which rent is charged or paid.
Listed forms: rents.
Source: Wiktionary — rent.
verb
- transitive
To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
Example: I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
- informal, transitive
To grant a lease in return for rent.
Example: We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
- transitive
To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- informal, intransitive
To be leased or let for rent.
Example: The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Listed forms: rents, renting, rented.
Source: Wiktionary — rent.
noun
A tear or rip in some surface.
A division or schism.
Listed forms: rents.
Source: Wiktionary — rent.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for rent.
noun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
noun
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- economic rent
noun
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
verb
let for money
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is rent in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of rent
R(1) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 4 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of rent
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from rent
9 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in rent. Showing up to 24, longest first.