sancochar
Spanish, verb/sankoˈt͡ʃaɾ/
sancochar is a Spanish verb meaning “to parboil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cocer un alimento sumergiéndolo en agua hirviendo”.
What does sancochar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to parboil
- 2
to boil
papas sancochadas
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cocer un alimento sumergiéndolo en agua hirviendo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sancochar
- sancocho first-person present singular
- sancoché first-person preterite singular
- sancochado participle past
- sancochando gerund
- sancochada feminine participle past
- sancochados masculine participle past
- sancochadas feminine participle past
- sancochas indicative informal present
- sancochás indicative informal present
- sancocha indicative present singular
- sancochamos first-person indicative plural
- sancocháis indicative plural present
- sancochan indicative plural present
- sancochaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sancochabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sancochábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sancochabais imperfect indicative plural
- sancochaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sancochar?
- /sankoˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [sãŋ.koˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- [sãŋkoˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sancochar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sancochar in Spanish?
sancochar appears about once in every 76 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).