zumessen
German, verb
zumessen is spelled Z-U-M-E-S-S-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 222,832nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zumessen is a German verb meaning “to allocate to; to allot something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zumessen is a different word: “gerund of zumessen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zukommen lassen, beimessen”.
What does zumessen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to allocate to; to allot something
- 2
to attach, to give (to connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zumessen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zukommen lassen, beimessen 2. durch Wiegen/Zählen (Messen) bestimmen und dann einem Empfänger zuteilen
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 zumessen
- misst zu present singular third-person
- maß zu past
- zugemessen participle past
- mäße zu past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 5 strong
- zumessend participle present
- zuzumessen infinitive infinitive-zu
- messe zu first-person indicative present
- messen zu first-person indicative plural
- messt zu indicative plural present
- messest zu second-person singular subjunctive
- messet zu plural second-person subjunctive
- maßen zu first-person indicative plural
- mäßen zu first-person formal plural
- maßest zu indicative preterite second-person
- maßt zu indicative preterite second-person
- mäßest zu formal rare second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zumessen in German?
zumessen appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).