dieting
noun, verb
dieting is spelled D-I-E-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dieting means “The practice of following a diet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dieting is dietings.
How many letters and syllables are in dieting?
| Letters | 7: D-I-E-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dieting?
Dieting appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dieting?
Dieting has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with dieting?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dieting.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: editing.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dieting
- dietings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dieting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The practice of following a diet.
They found out that dieting can harm you if you do it wrong. She advised them to talk with a doctor before doing anything too extreme.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of diet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).