sleuth
Plural: sleuths
Noun
- a detective who follows a trail
- A detective.
- A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
- An animal’s trail or track.
- Slowness; laziness, sloth.
- A group of bears.
Verb
Verb Forms: sleuthed, sleuthing, sleuths
- To act as a detective; to search for information or clues.
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
Examples
- He had to SLEUTH through the available letters to find a valid seven-letter word.
Origin / Etymology
Clipping of sleuthhound.
Synonyms
sleuthhound, snoop, spy, stag, detective, dick, gumshoe, idleness, inertia, investigator, laziness, lethargy, private eye, shadow, sloth, slothfulness
Scrabble Score: 9
sleuth: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsleuth: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sleuth: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary