Miss
German, noun
Miss is spelled M-I-S-S (4 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 5,079th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Miss is a German feminine noun meaning “Miss (form of address)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, miss is a different word: “singular imperative of messen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einem Wettbewerb, in dem es auf Aussehen oder Auftreten ankommt, als Siegerin hervorgegangene Frau”.
What does Miss mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineMiss (form of address)
- 2
femininetitle for a beauty queen
Miss Deutschland
prefix
- 1
Same functions and meanings as the English prefix mis-; a nominal, adjectival and inseparable verbal prefix that negates the meaning or expresses the opposite of its stem or indicates that something isn't being done correctly or isn't correct or good.
verb
- 1
singular imperative of messen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. einen Mangel oder Fehler ausdrückend 2. auf das Gegenteil verweisend 3. verneinend, negativ belegen
noun: 1. in einem Wettbewerb, in dem es auf Aussehen oder Auftreten ankommt, als Siegerin hervorgegangene Frau
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 Miss
- Misses plural
- Missen error-unknown-tag plural
- Miß alternative
- miß- alternative
- miß alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Miss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Miss in German?
Miss appears 15 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).