Masse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,815
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Masse is aGermannoun. It means: die Ursache, dass der Materie Trägheit und Schwere (Gravitation) eigen sind; nach der Relativitätstheorie mit Kraft (Energie) gleichwertig (äquivalent) Pronounced [ˈmasə]. It ranks #1,815 in German word frequency. Often confused with Muss and Maus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Masse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmasə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Masse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmasə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,815 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Masse, with forms such as "amsse", "mase", and "mases". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Muss", "Maus", "Mast", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Masse, spelled M-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Ursache, dass der Materie Trägheit und Schwere (Gravitation) eigen sind; nach der Relativitätstheorie mit Kraft (Energie) gleichwertig (äquivalent)
- 2viele, eine große Menge
- 3Referenzpotential, auch Erde oder Grund (kurz GND)
- 4ungeformte flüssige, weiche oder zähe Materie
- 5in großen Mengen, massenhaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amsse,mase,mases,maße,mmasse,msase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Masse
Misspelling Variants of "Masse"
Frequency rank: #1,815 in German
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Nearby German words
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