peatland
noun
peatland is a noun meaning “Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-A-T-L-A-N-D, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of peatland is peatlands.
What does peatland mean?
noun
- 1
Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog.
Near-synonyms: bog, bogland, marshland
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce peatland?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-peatland.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of peatland
- peatlands plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is peatland?
Peatland appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
Peatland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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Where does peatland come from?
From peat + land.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).