missen
German, verb
missen is spelled M-I-S-S-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,569th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missen is a German verb meaning “to be without, to lack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missen is a different word: “nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Miss (“beauty queen”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas entbehren”.
What does missen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be without, to lack
- 2
rareto miss
- 3
rareto lose
noun
- 1
nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Miss (“beauty queen”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas entbehren 2. etwas vermissen 3. etwas verlieren
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 missen
- misst present singular third-person
- misste past
- gemisst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- missend participle present
- misse first-person indicative present
- missest second-person singular subjunctive
- misset plural second-person subjunctive
- missten first-person indicative plural
- misstest indicative preterite second-person
- misstet indicative plural preterite
- miss imperative second-person singular
- habe gemisst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gemisst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- misse! imperative singular
- misst! imperative plural
- gemisst haben active infinitive perfect
- gemisst werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is missen in German?
missen appears 2.3 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).