détour
French, noun/de.tuʁ/
détour is spelled D-É-T-O-U-R (6 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détour is a French masculine noun meaning “detour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de s’écarter du chemin direct”.
What does détour mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedetour
- 2
masculinecurve
- 3
masculineevasion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de s’écarter du chemin direct. 2. Endroit où un chemin change de direction. 3. Chemin qui éloigne du droit chemin. 4. Longueur, digression inutile.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of détour
- détours plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détour?
- /de.tuʁ/
- \de.tuʁ\
- [de.tuʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to détour
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détour in French?
détour appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).