parboiled
adjective, verb
parboiled is an adjective meaning “partially boiled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-B-O-I-L-E-D, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does parboiled mean?
adjective
- 1
partially boiled
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of parboil
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of parboiled
- more parboiled comparative
- most parboiled superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parboiled?
Parboiled appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Parboiled in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | sancochado, parboilizado, parboileado |
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.