Definitions for Sherlock

Sherlock sher·lock

Spelling: [shur-lok]
IPA: /ˈʃɜr lɒk/

Sherlock is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in Sherlock (cehklors).

Definitions for Sherlock

noun

  1. a private detective.
  2. a person remarkably adept at solving mysteries, especially by using insight and logical deduction:
  3. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”.

Origin of Sherlock

after Sherlock Holmes, fictitious detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle

Examples for Sherlock

"I think I have known how to frame the letter," said sherlock Holmes.

LONDON — If sherlock Holmes was such a smart detective, why was he not put on the case of Jack the Ripper?

He'll ketch the thief, for he's sartainly got sherlock Holmes beat to a frazzle.

"That is the problem which we are now about to solve," said sherlock Holmes.

sherlock Holmes left the house alone, and only returned after eleven.

Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses.

sherlock Holmes is a new millennium sex symbol with books, movies, and TV episodes introducing him to a new generation of fans.

He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.

Of course, you could protest that sherlock did not really exist and the Ripper did.

"I think I should like to have a word with you presently, Mr. sherlock Holmes," said he.

Word Value for Sherlock
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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