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"deity" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often god (3 letters).
Definitions
any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Word origin
From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.
Used in a sentence
“Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.”
“The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.”
“Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Worshiped being”5 letters
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