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"help" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often assistance (10 letters).
Definitions
Assist; make easier
Word origin
From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).
Used in a sentence
“I need some help with my homework.”
“He was a great help to me when I was moving house.”
“I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues
01“Assistance”4 letters
02“Assistance in need”4 letters
03“Assistance when needed”4 letters
04“Useful assistance”4 letters
05“Assist”4 letters
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