sleuth
/sluːθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A detective.
Example Sentences
- "1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?"
- "“This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study."
- "We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!"
- "As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…"
- "If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves."
- "From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk."
Etymology
Clipping of sleuthhound.
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: slǣwþ
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sluːθ/
- British English: /sluːθ/