diet: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with D · ends with T
Meaning of diet
noun
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Example: The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- countable
A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
Example: He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
- broadly
Any habitual intake or consumption.
Example: He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Listed forms: diets, diate.
Source: Wiktionary — diet.
adj
- not-comparable
Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
- figuratively, informal, not-comparable
Having certain traits subtracted.
Example: You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
Listed forms: diate.
Source: Wiktionary — diet.
verb
- intransitive
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
Example: I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
- dated, transitive
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
- obsolete
To eat; to take one's meals.
- obsolete, transitive
To cause to take food; to feed.
Listed forms: diets, dieting, dieted, diate.
Source: Wiktionary — diet.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for diet.
noun
the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is diet in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of diet
D(2) + I(1) + E(1) + T(1) = 5 points.
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Anagrams of diet
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from diet
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