pixie
anglicism recorded since 13/08/2022
Frequency
Calculated from occurrences since 2020.
670
total occurrences
0.710
per million, total
0.959
per million, last year
0.522
per million, last month
Recorded forms
Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.
pixie (670)
Usage profile
Automatic estimate based on 552 contexts (since April 2020).
Quotation marks16% in quotes
In quotation marks (16%)
Without quotation marks (84%)
Morphological category
Noun (59%)
Adjective (23%)
Other / undetermined (18%)
Grammatical genderout of 405 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.
By outlet
Where it is used most.
By section
What kind of news it appears in.
Words it appears with
Most frequent words in the immediate context of “pixie”, according to the corpus examples.
corte (100)
pelo (49)
bob (30)
corto (18)
estilo (16)
flequillo (15)
crecido (10)
largo (10)
capas (8)
clásico (8)
hollywood (7)
texturizado (6)
cortes (6)
versión (5)
perfecto (5)
tradicional (5)
melena (5)
platino (4)
Contexts of use
556 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).
| Form ⇅ | Context | Outlet ⇅ | Section ⇅ | Date ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pixie | Para las que prefieren las melenas cortas , el pixie texturizado sigue siendo una apuesta segura . | Elle | Women's | 06/06/2026 |
| pixie | Puede acompañar a un ' bob ' o ' pixie ' , a una media melena o incluso a un pelo largo . | 20minutos | Front page | 10/06/2026 |
| pixie | El pixie y bixie con efecto mojado , como lo lleva Zendaya , está de moda . | ABC | Lifestyle | 22/06/2026 |
| pixie | Y los cortes tendencia son el pixie y el bixie , un híbrido entre el bob y el pixie . | ABC | Lifestyle | 22/06/2026 |
| pixie | El ' pixie ' y el ' bixie ' , los cortes para las que quieren el pelo corto | ABC | Lifestyle | 22/06/2026 |
| pixie | Por ello , cortes como el bob undone se ponen de moda , o un micro bob , un soft crop , un shaggy marcado , clavicut o un pixie » . | ABC | Lifestyle | 22/06/2026 |
Contextually related borrowings
Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “pixie”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.
mullet
169 co-occ.
mixie
31 co-occ.
bixie
27 co-occ.
shag
31 co-occ.
education manager
31 co-occ.
curve cut
16 co-occ.
box bob
22 co-occ.
bob
68 co-occ.
baby bang
38 co-occ.
long bob
49 co-occ.
long layer
11 co-occ.
bob boy
7 co-occ.
lob
22 co-occ.
hush cut
11 co-occ.
bowl cut
7 co-occ.
french bob
15 co-occ.
Borrowings containing “pixie”
Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.