fenland
noun
fenland is a noun meaning “A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-L-A-N-D, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fenland is fenlands.
What does fenland mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fenland?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-fenland.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fenland
- fenlands plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fenland?
Fenland appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Fenland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense low-lying, wet, marshy ground:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | tief liegendes Feuchtgebiet |
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.
Where does fenland come from?
From Middle English fenlond, from Old English fenland, equivalent to fen + land. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foanlound (“moorland”), West Frisian feanlân (“peat bog”), Dutch veenland (“peat bog”), Middle Low German vēnlant, vennelant (“swampy, boggy pastureland”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).