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iodized

adjective, verb

iodized is an adjective meaning “Treated with iodine or an iodide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-O-D-I-Z-E-D, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does iodized mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Treated with iodine or an iodide.

    iodized salt

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of iodize (a form of iodize)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of iodized

  • iodised

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is iodized?

Iodized appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Iodized in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishyodado, yodizado (treated with iodine), yodurado (treated with an iodide)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.