détour
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,820
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
détour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de s’écarter du chemin direct. Pronounced \de.tuʁ\. It ranks #7,820 in French word frequency. Often confused with dour and devoir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détour is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tuʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,820 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for détour, with forms such as "ddétour", "detour", and "dtéour". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dour", "devoir", "dévoué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is détour, spelled D-É-T-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de s’écarter du chemin direct.
- 2Endroit où un chemin change de direction.
- 3Chemin qui éloigne du droit chemin.
- 4Longueur, digression inutile.
- 5Discours dans lesquels on ne s’exprime que d’une manière indirecte, par crainte ou par ménagement, par délicatesse, etc.
- 6Sorte de biais, de moyen adroit, de ruse, de subtilité, pour éluder quelque chose, pour venir à bout de ce qu’on veut faire.
- 7Environs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétour,detour,dtéour,déotur,détoru,détourr,déttour,détuor,édtour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for détour
Misspelling Variants of "détour"
Frequency rank: #7,820 in French
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