diff --git a/crates/biome_cli/src/execute/migrate/eslint_any_rule_to_biome.rs b/crates/biome_cli/src/execute/migrate/eslint_any_rule_to_biome.rs
index 63f78d8a524c..46f6938063ce 100644
--- a/crates/biome_cli/src/execute/migrate/eslint_any_rule_to_biome.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_cli/src/execute/migrate/eslint_any_rule_to_biome.rs
@@ -104,9 +104,7 @@ pub(crate) fn migrate_eslint_any_rule(
                 return false;
             }
             let group = rules.nursery.get_or_insert_with(Default::default);
-            let rule = group
-                .use_explicit_function_return_type
-                .get_or_insert(Default::default());
+            let rule = group.use_explicit_type.get_or_insert(Default::default());
             rule.set_level(rule_severity.into());
         }
         "@typescript-eslint/explicit-member-accessibility" => {
diff --git a/crates/biome_configuration/src/analyzer/linter/rules.rs b/crates/biome_configuration/src/analyzer/linter/rules.rs
index a768982d9438..f90a75cf02e2 100644
--- a/crates/biome_configuration/src/analyzer/linter/rules.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_configuration/src/analyzer/linter/rules.rs
@@ -3401,8 +3401,7 @@ pub struct Nursery {
         Option<RuleConfiguration<biome_graphql_analyze::options::UseDeprecatedReason>>,
     #[doc = "Require explicit return types on functions and class methods."]
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub use_explicit_function_return_type:
-        Option<RuleConfiguration<biome_js_analyze::options::UseExplicitFunctionReturnType>>,
+    pub use_explicit_type: Option<RuleConfiguration<biome_js_analyze::options::UseExplicitType>>,
     #[doc = "Require for-in loops to include an if statement."]
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub use_guard_for_in: Option<RuleConfiguration<biome_js_analyze::options::UseGuardForIn>>,
@@ -3478,7 +3477,7 @@ impl Nursery {
         "useConsistentCurlyBraces",
         "useConsistentMemberAccessibility",
         "useDeprecatedReason",
-        "useExplicitFunctionReturnType",
+        "useExplicitType",
         "useGuardForIn",
         "useImportRestrictions",
         "useSortedClasses",
@@ -3750,7 +3749,7 @@ impl Nursery {
                 index_set.insert(RuleFilter::Rule(Self::GROUP_NAME, Self::GROUP_RULES[34]));
             }
         }
-        if let Some(rule) = self.use_explicit_function_return_type.as_ref() {
+        if let Some(rule) = self.use_explicit_type.as_ref() {
             if rule.is_enabled() {
                 index_set.insert(RuleFilter::Rule(Self::GROUP_NAME, Self::GROUP_RULES[35]));
             }
@@ -3964,7 +3963,7 @@ impl Nursery {
                 index_set.insert(RuleFilter::Rule(Self::GROUP_NAME, Self::GROUP_RULES[34]));
             }
         }
-        if let Some(rule) = self.use_explicit_function_return_type.as_ref() {
+        if let Some(rule) = self.use_explicit_type.as_ref() {
             if rule.is_disabled() {
                 index_set.insert(RuleFilter::Rule(Self::GROUP_NAME, Self::GROUP_RULES[35]));
             }
@@ -4175,8 +4174,8 @@ impl Nursery {
                 .use_deprecated_reason
                 .as_ref()
                 .map(|conf| (conf.level(), conf.get_options())),
-            "useExplicitFunctionReturnType" => self
-                .use_explicit_function_return_type
+            "useExplicitType" => self
+                .use_explicit_type
                 .as_ref()
                 .map(|conf| (conf.level(), conf.get_options())),
             "useGuardForIn" => self
diff --git a/crates/biome_diagnostics_categories/src/categories.rs b/crates/biome_diagnostics_categories/src/categories.rs
index 46f8a426108d..8e78a861b235 100644
--- a/crates/biome_diagnostics_categories/src/categories.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_diagnostics_categories/src/categories.rs
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ define_categories! {
     "lint/nursery/useConsistentCurlyBraces": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-consistent-curly-braces",
     "lint/nursery/useConsistentMemberAccessibility": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-consistent-member-accessibility",
     "lint/nursery/useDeprecatedReason": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-deprecated-reason",
-    "lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-explicit-function-return-type",
+    "lint/nursery/useExplicitType": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-explicit-function-return-type",
     "lint/nursery/useGuardForIn": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-guard-for-in",
     "lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-import-restrictions",
     "lint/nursery/useJsxCurlyBraceConvention": "https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-jsx-curly-brace-convention",
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery.rs b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery.rs
index 006b021974fa..b427e251a876 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery.rs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ pub mod use_at_index;
 pub mod use_component_export_only_modules;
 pub mod use_consistent_curly_braces;
 pub mod use_consistent_member_accessibility;
-pub mod use_explicit_function_return_type;
+pub mod use_explicit_type;
 pub mod use_guard_for_in;
 pub mod use_import_restrictions;
 pub mod use_sorted_classes;
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ declare_lint_group! {
             self :: use_component_export_only_modules :: UseComponentExportOnlyModules ,
             self :: use_consistent_curly_braces :: UseConsistentCurlyBraces ,
             self :: use_consistent_member_accessibility :: UseConsistentMemberAccessibility ,
-            self :: use_explicit_function_return_type :: UseExplicitFunctionReturnType ,
+            self :: use_explicit_type :: UseExplicitType ,
             self :: use_guard_for_in :: UseGuardForIn ,
             self :: use_import_restrictions :: UseImportRestrictions ,
             self :: use_sorted_classes :: UseSortedClasses ,
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_function_return_type.rs b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_type.rs
similarity index 99%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_function_return_type.rs
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_type.rs
index 46000228b2e5..dd4bda33b777 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_function_return_type.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/nursery/use_explicit_type.rs
@@ -202,9 +202,9 @@ declare_lint_rule! {
     /// }
     /// ```
     ///
-    pub UseExplicitFunctionReturnType {
+    pub UseExplicitType {
         version: "1.9.3",
-        name: "useExplicitFunctionReturnType",
+        name: "useExplicitType",
         language: "ts",
         recommended: false,
         sources: &[RuleSource::EslintTypeScript("explicit-function-return-type")],
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ declare_node_union! {
     pub AnyJsFunctionWithReturnType = AnyJsFunction | JsMethodClassMember | JsMethodObjectMember | JsGetterClassMember | JsGetterObjectMember
 }
 
-impl Rule for UseExplicitFunctionReturnType {
+impl Rule for UseExplicitType {
     type Query = Ast<AnyJsFunctionWithReturnType>;
     type State = TextRange;
     type Signals = Option<Self::State>;
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/options.rs b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/options.rs
index 662b0072df58..ca357f3e2226 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/options.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/options.rs
@@ -314,8 +314,9 @@ pub type UseEnumInitializers =
 pub type UseErrorMessage =
     <lint::suspicious::use_error_message::UseErrorMessage as biome_analyze::Rule>::Options;
 pub type UseExhaustiveDependencies = < lint :: correctness :: use_exhaustive_dependencies :: UseExhaustiveDependencies as biome_analyze :: Rule > :: Options ;
-pub type UseExplicitFunctionReturnType = < lint :: nursery :: use_explicit_function_return_type :: UseExplicitFunctionReturnType as biome_analyze :: Rule > :: Options ;
 pub type UseExplicitLengthCheck = < lint :: style :: use_explicit_length_check :: UseExplicitLengthCheck as biome_analyze :: Rule > :: Options ;
+pub type UseExplicitType =
+    <lint::nursery::use_explicit_type::UseExplicitType as biome_analyze::Rule>::Options;
 pub type UseExponentiationOperator = < lint :: style :: use_exponentiation_operator :: UseExponentiationOperator as biome_analyze :: Rule > :: Options ;
 pub type UseExportType =
     <lint::style::use_export_type::UseExportType as biome_analyze::Rule>::Options;
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/invalid.ts b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/invalid.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/invalid.ts
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/invalid.ts
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/invalid.ts.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/invalid.ts.snap
similarity index 78%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/invalid.ts.snap
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/invalid.ts.snap
index f64962a5730d..6f34976d42c3 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/invalid.ts.snap
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/invalid.ts.snap
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ const x = { bar: { prop: () => {} } }
 
 # Diagnostics
 ```
-invalid.ts:1:1 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:1:1 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ invalid.ts:1:1 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:3:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:3:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ invalid.ts:3:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:9:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:9:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ invalid.ts:9:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:13:15 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:13:15 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ invalid.ts:13:15 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:17:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:17:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ invalid.ts:17:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:21:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:21:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ invalid.ts:21:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:24:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:24:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ invalid.ts:24:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:25:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:25:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ invalid.ts:25:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:31:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:31:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ invalid.ts:31:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:37:3 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:37:3 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ invalid.ts:37:3 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:42:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:42:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ invalid.ts:42:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:43:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:43:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ invalid.ts:43:14 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:45:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:45:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ invalid.ts:45:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:46:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:46:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ invalid.ts:46:16 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:49:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:49:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ invalid.ts:49:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:50:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:50:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ invalid.ts:50:23 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:52:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:52:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ invalid.ts:52:10 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:57:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:57:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ invalid.ts:57:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:66:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:66:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ invalid.ts:66:17 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:78:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:78:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ invalid.ts:78:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:85:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:85:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ invalid.ts:85:2 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:94:19 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:94:19 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ invalid.ts:94:19 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━
 ```
 
 ```
-invalid.ts:95:26 lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+invalid.ts:95:26 lint/nursery/useExplicitType ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 
   ! Missing return type on function.
   
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.d.ts b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.d.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.d.ts
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.d.ts
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.d.ts.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.d.ts.snap
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.d.ts.snap
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.d.ts.snap
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.js b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.js
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.js
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.js
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.js.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.js.snap
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.js.snap
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.js.snap
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.ts b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.ts
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.ts
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.ts.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.ts.snap
similarity index 100%
rename from crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType/valid.ts.snap
rename to crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/nursery/useExplicitType/valid.ts.snap
diff --git a/packages/@biomejs/backend-jsonrpc/src/workspace.ts b/packages/@biomejs/backend-jsonrpc/src/workspace.ts
index b19fabf0ff6d..bcd9c6160611 100644
--- a/packages/@biomejs/backend-jsonrpc/src/workspace.ts
+++ b/packages/@biomejs/backend-jsonrpc/src/workspace.ts
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ export interface Nursery {
 	/**
 	 * Require explicit return types on functions and class methods.
 	 */
-	useExplicitFunctionReturnType?: RuleConfiguration_for_Null;
+	useExplicitType?: RuleConfiguration_for_Null;
 	/**
 	 * Require for-in loops to include an if statement.
 	 */
@@ -2945,7 +2945,7 @@ export type Category =
 	| "lint/nursery/useConsistentCurlyBraces"
 	| "lint/nursery/useConsistentMemberAccessibility"
 	| "lint/nursery/useDeprecatedReason"
-	| "lint/nursery/useExplicitFunctionReturnType"
+	| "lint/nursery/useExplicitType"
 	| "lint/nursery/useGuardForIn"
 	| "lint/nursery/useImportRestrictions"
 	| "lint/nursery/useJsxCurlyBraceConvention"
diff --git a/packages/@biomejs/biome/configuration_schema.json b/packages/@biomejs/biome/configuration_schema.json
index 440f32f16f15..9402fa335c0f 100644
--- a/packages/@biomejs/biome/configuration_schema.json
+++ b/packages/@biomejs/biome/configuration_schema.json
@@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@
 						{ "type": "null" }
 					]
 				},
-				"useExplicitFunctionReturnType": {
+				"useExplicitType": {
 					"description": "Require explicit return types on functions and class methods.",
 					"anyOf": [
 						{ "$ref": "#/definitions/RuleConfiguration" },