sleuth

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A detective.
2. noun A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
3. noun An animal’s trail or track.
4. verb To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
5. noun Slowness; laziness, sloth.
6. noun A group of bears.

Similar words

sleuthhound hound hounds operative detective suspector superdetective schemist searcher store detective

Often followed by

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Word family

sleuthed sleuthing sleuths