sleuthing

1. 1.

   a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

   “detection is hard on the feet”

   Synonymsdetectiondetectingdetective work

   Broaderpolice work

Other forms of sleuthing

plural

sleuthings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sleuthing

What does sleuthing mean?

sleuthing means "a police investigation to determine the perpetrator".

How many syllables are in sleuthing?

sleuthing has 2 syllables: sleu-thing. The stress falls on "sleu". In IPA it is /ˈsluθɪŋ/.

What is another word for sleuthing?

Close synonyms include detection, detecting, detective work. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sleuthing a common word?

sleuthing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.