diet

//ˈdaɪ.ət// noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,540

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

diet is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dieta, régimen. Pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ət/.

Key facts for diet
PropertyValue
Headworddiet
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈdaɪ.ət/
Letters4
Frequency rank#55,540
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of diet in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for diet is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdaɪ.ət/. Corpus data places it at rank #55,540 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dieta, régimen.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for diet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is diet, spelled D-I-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dieta, régimen.

Frequency rank: #55,540 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diet"?
"diet" is spelled D-I-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈdaɪ.ət/.
What does "diet" mean?
As a noun, "diet" means: Dieta, régimen.
How do you pronounce "diet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diet" is /ˈdaɪ.ət/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.