sprint

anglicism recorded since 29/06/2020

Spelling variants: esprint

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

5,867
total occurrences
6.220
per million, total
5.001
per million, last year
5.276
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

sprint (5,421) sprints (446)

Usage profile

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

Quotation marks18% in quotes
In quotation marks (18%) Without quotation marks (82%)
Morphological category
Noun (82%) Adjective (13%) Other / undetermined (5%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,712 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (81%) Feminine (19%)

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.

El Confidencial 1,076
La Vanguardia 953
El País 895
El Mundo 881
20minutos 784
Marca 698
ABC 312
Men's Health 85
elDiario.es 68
Agencia EFE 49

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Sports 4,669
Front page 355
Spain 125
Motor 98
Economy 96
Men's 85
International 68
Politics 57

Words it appears with

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

carrera (244) final (158) prueba (52) sábado (33) intermedio (31) carreras (30) victoria (28) formato (26) clasificación (19) ganar (18) último (17) china (17) esquí (15) gana (13) modalidad (13) seis (11) motogp (10) masivo (10)

Contexts of use

5,676 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
sprints Mientras los austríacos abogan por el vértigo y el ritmo alto , el capitán y líder de la albiceleste , a punto de cumplir los 39 años , es un jugador que no necesita grandes sprints ni recorrer distancias largas para ser decisivo , ya que es quirúrgico con una gran visión del juego y con un guante en su bota izquierda . La Vanguardia Sports 22/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

skimo 10 co-occ.
snowboard cross 7 co-occ.
halfpipe 9 co-occ.
trail 20 co-occ.
snowboard 15 co-occ.
trail running 13 co-occ.
pole 32 co-occ.
cros 8 co-occ.
bobsleigh 5 co-occ.
mountain bike 4 co-occ.
box 19 co-occ.
slalom 4 co-occ.
pole position 7 co-occ.
paddock 7 co-occ.
timing 4 co-occ.
running 11 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “sprint”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.