Definitions For Detouring

noun

  • 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

Is Detouring 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
11
Words with Friends
14

The word Detouring is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Detouring 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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