Synonyms of muskeg

muskeg

noun

ˈmə-ˌskeg 

as in marsh

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water

local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg

Synonyms & Similar Words

• marsh
• wetland
• swamp
• bog
• mud
• marshland
• slough
• swampland
• fen
• wash
• morass
• moor
• mire
• swale
• sludge
• quagmire
• muck
• ooze
• slime
• slush
• guck
• slop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of muskeg

Nugget Falls Trail, Tongass National Forest, Alaska Visitors to the Tongass National Forest can hike through meadows and dense forests, explore caves, or even venture on a wooden boardwalk trail through swampy bogs called muskegs. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026

We were trapped in country as wild and rough as any in western Ontario, all hills and swamps, lakes and streams, muskeg, beaver ponds, and windfalls. — Elwyn "bud" Myers, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026

The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg. — Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022

Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022

The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface. — NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021

Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp. — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020