Gumshoe
7 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
An informal term for a private detective or investigator.
“The old gumshoe had worked the city streets for twenty years and knew every back alley in town.”
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gum·shoe
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Wordle
Compound GUM + SHOE, SH digraph in the second half, ends in -OE
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Scrabble
Worth 13 points, SH and OE combine well, seven letters from two common words
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