hardcore

anglicism recorded since 30/06/2020

Spelling variants: hard-core · hard core

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

458
total occurrences
0.486
per million, total
0.414
per million, last year
0.232
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

hardcore (456) hardcores (2)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 453 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks32% in quotes
In quotation marks (32%) Without quotation marks (68%)
Morphological category
Noun (48%) Adjective (36%) Other / undetermined (16%)
Grammatical genderout of 253 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (80%) Feminine (20%)

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.

Rolling Stone 96
El País 74
La Vanguardia 55
El Salto 42
El Confidencial 40
elDiario.es 33
El Mundo 32
ABC 26
Jot Down 19
20minutos 17

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 155
Music 96
Front page 65
Politics 44
Technology 17
Spain 15
Television 14
Men's 9

Words it appears with

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

punk (18) banda (18) música (17) escena (11) versión (9) melódico (9) bandas (8) jugadores (7) modo (7) metal (6) grupo (6) sonido (5) pornografía (4) fans (4) algo (4) porno (4) trabajo (4) poco (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
hardcore Porque su carrera musical apenas duró tres años , pero este trabajo lanzado en los noventa dejó una huella importante entre los seguidores del llamado emocore , la rama más emotiva e introspectiva del hardcore . elDiario.es Culture 06/06/2026
hardcore En Viveiro ( Lugo ) , el Resurrection Fest celebra su veinte aniversario entre el 1 y el 4 de julio con su oferta a medio camino entre el heavy metal , el hardcore , el punk y otros sonidos extremos . ABC Culture 12/06/2026
hardcore La pulsera gris permite alcanzar este estrato y la música suena menos hardcore , un poco más fluida , el dj allí está más a mano . El Mundo Culture 17/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

death metal 30 co-occ.
straight edge 11 co-occ.
thrash 12 co-occ.
post-punk 27 co-occ.
fanzine 56 co-occ.
doom 10 co-occ.
math rock 6 co-occ.
skate 45 co-occ.
black metal 13 co-occ.
skater 29 co-occ.
flyer 16 co-occ.
sprite 7 co-occ.
trap 56 co-occ.
groove 17 co-occ.
shoegaze 8 co-occ.
indie 61 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “hardcore”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.