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Is heap a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word heap is a Scrabble US word. The word heap is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

H4E1A1P3

Is heap a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word heap is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

H4E1A1P3

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Yes. The word heap is a Words With Friends word. The word heap is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

EPHA,HEAP,

3-letter words (7 found)

APE,HAE,HAP,HEP,PAH,PEA,PEH,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AH,EA,EH,HA,HE,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from heap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of heap

heap ehap haep ahep eahp aehp hepa ehpa hpea phea epha peha hape ahpe hpae phae aphe pahe eaph aeph epah peah apeh paeh

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word heap. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in heap.

Definitions and meaning of heap

heap

Etymology

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)).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hēp, IPA(key): /hiːp/
  • ((Ireland), dated) enPR: hāp, IPA(key): /heːp/
  • Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

heap (plural heaps)

  1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. A great number or large quantity of things.
  4. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  5. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:lot

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: ipi

Translations

Verb

heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)

  1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

Synonyms

  • (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

  • heap coals of fire on someone's head
  • heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
  • heap on
  • heap up
  • overheap
  • heap insult on injury

Translations

Adverb

heap (not comparable)

  1. (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

Anagrams

  • HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Cognate with Old Frisian hāp, Old Saxon hōp, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xæ͜ɑːp/, [hæ͜ɑːp]

Noun

hēap m

  1. group
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
  2. heap

Declension

Derived terms

  • hēapmǣlum

Descendants

  • Middle English: hepe, heep, hep
    • English: heap
    • Yola: heep

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English heap.

Noun

heap m or f (plural heaps)

  1. (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hāp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).

Noun

heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)

  1. heap, pile
  2. mass, gang, horde

Further reading

  • “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org