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DIET
Definition of DIET
noun
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,240)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DIET · 5 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DIET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DIET starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DIET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found DIET?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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