hobby

anglicism recorded since 26/04/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

3,436
total occurrences
3.643
per million, total
4.698
per million, last year
5.392
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

hobby (1,968) hobbies (1,438) hobbys (30)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 2,000 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks22% in quotes
In quotation marks (22%) Without quotation marks (78%)
Morphological category
Noun (71%) Adjective (13%) Other / undetermined (16%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,036 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (99%) Feminine (1%)

Heuristics computed over the contexts of use: the category is inferred from the kind of word preceding the borrowing, so percentages are indicative.

Frequency over time

Occurrences per million words, by week.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

La Vanguardia 799
20minutos 505
El País 348
El Confidencial 346
Men's Health 302
El Mundo 232
Diez Minutos 205
ABC 166
Elle 145
elDiario.es 136

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Front page 529
Lifestyle 457
Women's 350
Men's 302
People 277
Culture 273
Television 262
Sports 259

Words it appears with

Most frequent words in the immediate context of “hobby”, according to the corpus examples.

nuestros (29) favoritos (26) nuevos (25) tengo (23) sino (20) solo (19) practicar (19) aficiones (19) trabajo (18) simple (17) favorito (15) algo (15) siendo (15) nuestro (14) amigos (13) sea (13) gustos (13) actividades (13)

Contexts of use

3,001 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
hobby Es el hobby favorito de los internacionales , aunque también se divierten jugando al ' Call of Duty : Warzone ' y dándose paseos por la playa , aprovechando que su campo base está en la californiana Laguna Beach , una exclusiva zona al sur de Los Ángeles apta para muy pocos bolsillos . ABC Sports 21/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “hobby”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.

fitness 390 co-occ.
trail 11 co-occ.
surf 15 co-occ.
snack 19 co-occ.
casting 30 co-occ.
networking 9 co-occ.
runner 4 co-occ.
streaming 33 co-occ.
reel 4 co-occ.
single 5 co-occ.
show 15 co-occ.
flash 4 co-occ.
thriller 12 co-occ.
online 18 co-occ.
running 4 co-occ.
startup 9 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “hobby”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.