reroute

verb

re·​route (ˌ)rē-ˈrüt 

-ˈrau̇t

rerouted; rerouting

transitive verb

transitive : to send or direct (something) on or along a different route

rerouting flights/traffic

Bypassing roads, of course, was a prime consideration in rerouting the trail …

—Paul Dunphy

automatically reroutes incoming calls

intransitive verb

intransitive : to switch to a different route

The storm forced planes/ships to reroute.

Examples of reroute in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Service resumed Tuesday morning with delays and train rerouted around the crash site between Farmingdale and Deer Park. —David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026

For the operation, the team used a multi-node mesh network that could reroute data automatically through other available noted, if certain parts of the network were disrupted. —Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026

Caldwell is slated to start construction on the city’s Kimball Bridge on Monday, meaning detours will reroute traffic downtown. —Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026

Breen and Legler were rerouted from last Saturday’s assignment in Dallas due to snowstorms around Texas. —Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reroute

• acute
• aleut
• astute
• beetroot
• breadfruit
• cheroot
• commute
• compute
• confute
• dilute
• dispute
• elute