mittels
German, preposition
mittels is spelled M-I-T-T-E-L-S (7 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written German, the 2,246th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mittels is a German preposition meaning “by means of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mittels is a different word: “genitive singular of Mittel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit dem … [im Genitiv folgenden Gegenstand] als Mittel”.
What does mittels mean in English?
preposition
- 1
by means of
Kommunikation mittels technischer Systeme
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Mittel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
preposition: 1. mit dem … [im Genitiv folgenden Gegenstand] als Mittel
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 mittels
- mittelst variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mittels
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mittels in German?
mittels appears 37 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).