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Etymology 1

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *help? (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?elb-, *?elp- (“to help”). Cognate with West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).

Noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

  1. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
  2. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
  3. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
  4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
  5. (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Etymology 2

From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan (“to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”), from Proto-Germanic *helpan? (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *?elb-, *?elp- (“to help”). Cognate with West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), Low German hölpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Norwegian hjelpe (“to help”), Lithuanian šelpti (“to help, support”).

Verb

help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past helped or (archaic) holp, past participle helped or (archaic) holpen)

  1. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
  2. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
  3. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
  4. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
  5. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
Interjection

help!

  1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

Results 454 Words with the letters HELP

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9 letter words with the letters HELP 
8 letter words with the letters HELP 
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6 letter words with the letters HELP 
ALEPHS 12
CHAPEL 15
HELPED 13
HELPER 12
HIRPLE 12
HOLPEN 13
HOPPLE 15
KLEPHT 16
PHENOL 13
PHENYL 15
PHLEGM 17
PHLOEM 15
PHYLAE 14
PLEACH 15
PLENCH 16
SCHLEP 15
SHLEPP 15
SHLEPS 12
UPHELD 14
WHELPS 15
5 letter words with the letters HELP 
ALEPH 11
HELPS 11
PHYLE 13
SHLEP 11
WHELP 14
4 letter words with the letters HELP 
HELP 10
3 letter words with the letters HELP 
HEP 8
PEH 8
2 letter words with the letters HELP 
EH 4
EL 3
HE 4
PE 5

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