Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 4 letters

heap

Best crossword clue

"Pile"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hiːp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aehpStarts with HEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
1H2E3A4P

Mini crossword

Today's mini takes a couple of minutes.

Play the mini →

Definitions

  1. Pile or large quantity of things.

Word origin

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

Used in a sentence

  • A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences
  • He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
  • a heap of earth; a heap of stones

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

01Pile4 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

H___

Related words