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"heap" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often pile (4 letters).
Definitions
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
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01“Pile”4 letters
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