mässig
German, adjective
mässig is spelled M-Ä-S-S-I-G (6 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mässig is a German adjective meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of mäßig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, massig is a different word: “bulky (large in size, mass, or volume)”.
What does mässig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of mäßig
adjective
- 1
bulky (large in size, mass, or volume)
- 2
informallots of, loads of
suffix
- 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of -mäßig
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit Masse ausgestattet; über genügend, ausreichend Masse verfügend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mässig
- massiger masculine nominative singular
- am massigsten superlative
- massige feminine nominative singular
- massiges neuter nominative singular
- massigen genitive masculine singular
- massigem dative masculine singular
- der massige definite includes-article masculine
- die massige definite feminine includes-article
- das massige definite includes-article neuter
- die massigen definite includes-article nominative
- des massigen definite genitive includes-article
- der massigen definite feminine genitive
- dem massigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mässig
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mässig in German?
mässig appears 8.1 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).