Messe
German, noun
Messe is spelled M-E-S-S-E (5 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written German, the 3,122nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Messe is a German feminine noun meaning “fair (trade exhibition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, messe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “katholische Gottesdienstform, die aus Wortgottesdienst und Eucharistiefeier besteht”.
What does Messe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefair (trade exhibition)
- 2
femininemass, the eucharistic liturgy
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. katholische Gottesdienstform, die aus Wortgottesdienst und Eucharistiefeier besteht 2. Musikgattung, in der Texte der religiösen Messe vertont werden 3. Volksfeste, die zum/am Jahrestag eines Kirchenpatrons abgehalten werden 4. Ereignis, bei dem Unternehmen ihre Waren zeigen und verkaufen
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 Messe
- Messen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Messe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Messe in German?
Messe appears 26 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).