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PARBOILED
Definition of PARBOILED
verb
simple past and past participle of parboil
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Other senses
PARBOILED carries 2 further meanings.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of parboil.
adjective
partially boiled
Word DNA
PARBOILED inherits its ancestry from its root, PARBOIL.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,117)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARBOIL · 3 relatives in the game
PARBOILED in a sentence
“The only ingredient listed is whole - grain parboiled brown rice.”
Is that right? Uncle Ben's whole-grain white rice is really brown?, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARBOILED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 102 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARBOILED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEILOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PARBOILED. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PARBOI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found PARBOILED?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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