Pile
The crossword clue "Pile" is answered by HEAP, a 4-letter entry. Used 132 times across 40 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
HEAP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEAP answer page.
Used 132 times across 40 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 29 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this pilot link to their own answer page.
- STACK (23 uses in xd)
- REACTOR (3 uses in xd)
- SLEW (2 uses in xd)
- ATOMIC (1 uses in xd)
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