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Is diet a Scrabble word?

Yes, diet is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of diet?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.Examples: "He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis."countable

2. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.Examples: "He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years."; "Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet."broadly

adj (English)

1. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.Examples: "diet soda"; "Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more."; "The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink."not-comparable

2. (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.Examples: "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."Synonyms: litefigurativelyinformalnot-comparable

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.Examples: "I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight."intransitive

2. (transitive, dated) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.Examples: "they will diet themselves, feed and live alone."; "When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked."; "As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe."datedtransitive

3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.Examples: "Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth."obsolete

4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.Examples: "But partly led to diet my revenge […]."obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.Examples: "the National Diet of Japan"; "They were given representation in some important diet committees."capitalizedusually

2. (Scotland) A session of exams.Examples: "Normally the diet begins towards the end of April."; "“Coronavirus: School exam timetable could be put back next year”, in BBC News website, BBC, 14 June 2020, retrieved 23 Jun"Scotland

3. (Scots law) A criminal proceeding in court.

4. (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.Examples: "a diet of worship"Scotland

noun (English)

1. (microbiology) Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.abbreviationalt-ofuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "diet"?

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Scrabble
5 points
D2
I1
E1
T1
Words With Friends
5 points
D2
I1
E1
T1

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