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diet

Portuguese, adjective/ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/

diet is spelled D-I-E-T (4 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,882nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diet is a Portuguese adjective meaning “diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver dietético”.

What does diet mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

prefix: 1. sistema de vida 2. regime

adjective: 1. ver dietético

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of diet

  • di.e.t- canonical

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce diet?

  • Brazil /ˈdaj.t͡ʃi/
  • Brazil [ˈdaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • Brazil /ˈdaj.e.t͡ʃi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to diet

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is diet in Portuguese?

diet appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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