Definitions for sleuth

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Spelling: [slooth]
IPA: /sluθ/

Sleuth is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in sleuth (ehlstu).

Definitions for sleuth

noun

  1. a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  2. a bloodhound, a dog used for tracking.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to track or trail, as a detective.

Origin of sleuth

First recorded in 1875-80; short for sleuthhound

Examples for sleuth

There wa'n't any need to do the sleuth act after Marjorie got started.

All we've got to do now is to play the sleuth when he leaves the cabin.

That sleuth is Peter Darwin—no relation to Charles, thanks kindly.

Never was there a sleuth with his heart in his business as mine will be.

If only there were some massive government apparatus available to us to sift through the metadata and sleuth these fakers out.

[Styleite] On the DL: Kate Bosworth was sleuth in announcing her engagement to actor Michael Polish.

There was something very like the 194 sleuth in its attitude.

Some firms charge several thousands of dollars per hour for the sleuth work of a team of six to eight investigators.

"This," says the sleuth, haulin' out of his pocket a bulgy envelope.

“Apana once climbed up walls like a pre-Spiderman sleuth and slipped into an opium dive,” writes Huang.

Word Value for sleuth
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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