Cash-back or cashback?
cash-back is a noun meaning “The retail facility whereby a customer may withdraw an amount of cash when…”; cashback is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of cash-back”. cash-back is written with a hyphen and cashback as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between cash-back and cashback?
| cash-back | cashback | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | The retail facility whereby a customer may withdraw an amount of cash when making a purchase with a credit card or debit card, the amount being added to the… | Alternative spelling of cash-back |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | cashbacks |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 2 million words |
Sources: cash-back and cashback in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of cash-back and cashback
cash-back
- 1
The retail facility whereby a customer may withdraw an amount of cash when making a purchase with a credit card or debit card, the amount being added to the bill
cashback
- 1
Alternative spelling of cash-back
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, cash-back or cashback?
cash-back is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; cashback about once in every 2 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).