Detour is valid Scrabble Word

Is detour a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is detour valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for DETOUR in dictionary:

VERB:

to take an indirect route
take a long or roundabout route
avoid by taking a detour
travel via a detour
deviate or cause to deviate from a direct route or course of action

NOUN:

a long or roundabout route that is taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way
an alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed.
route that is not the most direct one
A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

Words related to DETOUR

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Words that contain DETOUR

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How to use DETOUR in a sentence

The rest of the party made a detour of nearly five miles, keeping behind the crest of a hill.
She calmly saddled the roan, mounted him, and rode by a wider detour to the cottonwoods behind the blacksmith shop.
Passing again through the cathedral, whose windows are well worthy of mention, we made a detour round the town, and then started for Montrejeau.
Having gained firm ground, we made a detour more to the eastward, and at last succeeded in reaching the bank of the river close to the head of the inlet.
He was almost entirely a creature of habit, and always he made this particular detour, entering the other valley again far down toward the Babine.
They therefore usually marched out from the American zone, made a detour through villages and forest, and struck the railway at a point as far distant as possible.
I descended the straits that day, and having turned Point Detour reached Michilimackinack the next morning.
While they were thus engaged, the Scottish knights were enabled to make a detour around the scene of the first attack, and take the English in the rear.
Bedient was back in camp in time to start breakfast, having made a big detour to reach the base of the gorge.
Making a detour among the trees they had reached their present position not more than three hundred yards away from the buildings.

Noon of the third day came, and the Ozark Central became the detour route of every cross-Missouri mail train.
Soon the long detour up the San Luis Rey Valley will be a thing of the past.
It is evident we must make a considerable detour to avoid danger.
As the tide was down, it required a considerable detour to reach the spot, and when at last they came off the ladder-way, the mangled body had disappeared.
We stopped at the glacerie for ice, and Polonsky insisted that we make a detour to his residence to drink a stirrup-cup of champagne.
It has a small Early English church of little interest, but the village is worth a long detour to see because of its unique position.
To-morrow the entire private-car party goes to Copah over the detour.
They had landed above the point and, making a short detour inland, had fallen on Ambrose and Nesis from behind.
To gain time for reflection I resolved to make a detour.
I awaited the coming of daylight and then went down to the front of the chateau, and made a detour, examining every trace of footsteps coming towards it or going from it.
It brought him face to face with Mary V without any chance at all of retreating unseen or making a detour.
On our way up to the front we made a detour in order that I might call on a friend, Mrs.
Petersburg to Moscow by a slight detour, to avoid some very troublesome obstacles.
From the Muckross, a short detour will, if desired, lead to Flesk Castle, standing on a finely wooded hill above the wide sweeping river.
Through all our wide detour there were strict injunctions against smoking, enforced among the Leicestershires, ignored among machine-gunners and Indian drivers.
He was compelled to make a wide detour, to avoid capture, and thus extended his journey to nearly a half-dozen miles.
They must make a long detour to catch him after he reached the foot of the fall.
We were now forced to retrace our steps, and in following the course indicated by the natives we made a slight detour, and travelled over hard ground into our old track again.
We trailed these tracks across the park, then made a detour in hopes of heading the deer off, but failed.
One of the boys went with him, making quite a detour from our course, but always remaining in sight.
Even as Hal had expected, Duval, believing that he had eluded his pursuers, made a detour and entered his home from a side entrance.
Therefore, when I resumed my journey at nightfall, I made a wide detour around the place where I believed their camp would be.
As it was, of course, his intention to travel on into the heart of Asia, to make a detour through Sebsevar was unnecessary and out of his way.
However, Haw-Haw Langley well knew the powers of the ugly beast, and he even made a detour and walked about the horse to view it more closely.
Desperately he rode, for the detour had cost him priceless time, yet it might be made up.

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