Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sloughland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: slough-land
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Land marked by sloughs; swampland.

Example Sentences

"... an area of continuous sloughland, all more or less flooded. The land is quite useless until some system of drainage on a large scale lets the water off the surface into either Carrot river or Sipanok channel, when the soil would probably be found to be[…]"

Etymology

From slough + land.

Inflected Forms

sloughlands (plural)

Questions

What does sloughland mean?: Land marked by sloughs; swampland.
Where does sloughland come from?: From slough + land.

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