What you eat

The answer

DIET

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIET answer page.

Used 28 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• INTAKE (6 uses in xd)
• FARE (4 uses in xd)

Other clues for DIET

Every other clue in this collection answered by DIET, most used first.

• Regimen - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• Count calories - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Losing proposition? - used 40 times, most recently in 2022
• Food regimen - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Weight-loss plan - used 30 times, most recently in 2026

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• "Would ___ to you?" - ILIE, used 135 times
• "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times

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