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Spell Bee Word: Dietary


What does dietary mean?

Word: Dietary

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Dietary means connected with the food that a person eats regularly.

How do you spell dietary?

Syllables: di - et - a - ry

Tricky part: The opening two vowels are easy to swap, giving deitary. The long i sound comes first, so i goes ahead of e.

Watch out for: deitary, daitary

Memory tip: Say the opening out loud: the letter i you hear is the letter you write.

Dietary in a sentence

Example 1: Our canteen keeps a list of every pupil's dietary needs.

Example 2: Dietary fibre comes from fruit, vegetables and whole grains.

Example 3: The hostel changed its menu to suit vegetarian and other dietary habits.

Fun Fact

Diet comes through Latin from a Greek word meaning a way of living, so it once covered far more than food.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

diet____

a) ry
b) ory
c) ery
d) ary

Show answer

d) ary. The ending is the one in secretary and military.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Each camper was given a dietary chart on a seperate sheet of paper.

a) sheet
b) camper
c) paper
d) seperate

Show answer

d) seperate. Separate has an a after the p.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

yeitadr

a) dietary
b) dignity
c) dictate
d) military

Show answer

a) dietary. Only one option has both an e and a y.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) carbohidrate
b) nutrition
c) dietary
d) vegetarian

Show answer

a) carbohidrate. Carbohydrate has a y after the h.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A hotel asks guests about their dietary choices. What does it want to know?

a) where they will travel
b) what food they eat
c) how long they will stay
d) which room they like

Show answer

b) what food they eat

2. Pick out the dietary habit.

a) tidying your desk weekly
b) having fruit at breakfast
c) reading before bedtime
d) walking to school daily

Show answer

b) having fruit at breakfast

Associated Words

Words that end in -tary: monetary, unitary, sedimentary, commentary, voluntary, documentary

More words from this list

fiasco, inevitable, nitrogen, quote, tantrum, yolk, arid, clockwise

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