mss.

French, noun

mss. is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of ms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manuscrits”.

What does mss. mean in English?

noun

1
masculineplural of ms.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Manuscrits.

noun: 1. Moyenne surface spécialisée.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How common is mss. in French?

mss. appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.

mss.0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Frenchmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).