heap
heap is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
- noun. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
- noun. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.
- transitive verb. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
- transitive verb. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
- transitive verb. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
- noun. a car that is old and unreliable
"the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
- noun. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- verb. fill to overflow
"heap the platter with potatoes"
- verb. arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"
"stack your books up on the shelves"
- verb. bestow in large quantities
"He heaped him with work"
"She heaped scorn upon him"
Synonyms
bus, jalopy, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile, batch, deal, flock, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, plenty, pot, raft, sight
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heap:
Common word forms
heaps, heaped, heaper, heaping
Words from these letters
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