parboiling
noun, verb
parboiling is a noun meaning “The act by which something is parboiled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-B-O-I-L-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of parboiling is parboilings.
What does parboiling mean?
noun
- 1
The act by which something is parboiled.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of parboil
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce parboiling?
Parboiling has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of parboiling
- parboilings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parboiling?
Parboiling appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Parboiling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | parboilização |
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.