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[missdaredevil]

Which is more common?
detail or details?

[advoca]

Details and detail are different

The details of something are its individual features or elements.
The details of the plan are still being worked out.
No details of the discussions have been given.

A detail is a minor point or aspect of something, as opposed to the central ones.
The information he produced was only a small detail.

If you examine or discuss something in detail, you do it thoroughly and carefully.
We examined the wording in detail before deciding on the final text.

[missdaredevil]

Thank you, Advoca, for being an advocate of English learning.