marshland
"marshland" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marshland” is uncommon English (frequency #63,787 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,787
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marshy land; bog or fen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marshland · marshland · English
marshland · rank #63,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,787
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marsala
Nearest frequency peer: Marsala (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “marshland”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- mapper
mapper
36,218 corpus weight
- Marcie
Marcie
36,217 corpus weight
- maron
maron
36,216 corpus weight
- Marsala
Marsala
36,215 corpus weight
- marshland
marshland
36,214 corpus weight
- McGonagall
McGonagall
36,213 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “marshland” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marshland |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “marshland” in English
Rare enough to double-check
marshland is uncommon English at frequency #63,787 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Marshy land; bog or fen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marshland in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From marsh + land. The correct English form is marshland, spelled M-A-R-S-H-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Marshy land; bog or fen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marshland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
East of Bow Creek, the line ran to North Woolwich along the bank of the Thames, then entirely uninhabited marshland, without roads.
Etymology
From marsh + land.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).