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"group" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often set (3 letters).
Definitions
A set of people or things together
Word origin
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”).
Used in a sentence
“there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group”
“A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.”
“Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Set of items”5 letters
02“People gathered together”5 letters
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