Definitions For Detour
noun
- A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- To go along a way that is different from and usually longer than the usual or planned way
- To make (someone or something) go in a direction that is not planned or expected
- To avoid (something) by going around it
verb
- Travel via a detour
Is Detours a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9
The word Detour is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Detour in a Sentence
- After a number of unexpected detours, we finally arrived at our destination.
- The little restaurant is worth a detour.
- We had to make a detour around the heaviest traffic.
- We detoured around the heaviest traffic.
- A police officer was detouring traffic around the scene of the accident.
- Traffic will be detoured to 72nd Street.
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