valoir le détour
The verdict
“valoir le détour” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mériter une visite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valoir le détour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valoir le détour” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valoir le détour is 16 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mériter une visite.".
No misspelling variants are generated for valoir le détour in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 valoir le détour, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -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
- 1Mériter une visite.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “valoir le détour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-O-I-R- -L-E- -D-É-T-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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