Muss
German, noun
Muss is spelled M-U-S-S (4 letters) and appears 1,318 times per million words in written German, the 85th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muss is a German neuter noun meaning “necessity, a must” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, muss is a different word: “first/third-person singular present of müssen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, das absolut notwendig ist”.
What does Muss mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuternecessity, a must
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present of müssen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwas, das absolut notwendig ist
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 Muss
- Muß alternative
- muß alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Muss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Muss in German?
Muss appears 1,318 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).