sim swapping

anglicism recorded since 25/07/2020

Spelling variants: simswapping · sim 'swapping · sim-swapping

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

52
total occurrences
0.055
per million, total
0.010
per million, last year
0.000
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

sim swapping (52)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 52 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks75% in quotes
In quotation marks (75%) Without quotation marks (25%)
Morphological category
Noun (63%) Adjective (6%) Other / undetermined (31%)
Grammatical genderout of 27 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (96%) Feminine (4%)

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 19
20minutos 9
El País 6
ABC 5
El Confidencial 5
El Mundo 5
elDiario.es 2
Cinco Días 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Technology 24
Front page 13
Economy 8
Spain 4
Crime news 2
Health 1

Words it appears with

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

vishing (5) técnica (4) víctimas (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
SIM swapping La cuantía de la condena asciende a más de 4.000 euros , correspondientes al dinero sustraído de sus cuentas mediante la técnica conocida como ' SIM swapping ' o duplicado fraudulento de la tarjeta telefónica . El País Economy 29/12/2025
SIM swapping Sentencia pionera contra el ‘ SIM swapping ’ : Vodafone y WiZink indemnizarán a una víctima de fraude bancario El País Economy 29/12/2025

Contextually related borrowings

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

vishing 8 co-occ.
phishing 17 co-occ.
smishing 5 co-occ.
hacker 12 co-occ.
malware 7 co-occ.
online 25 co-occ.
app 8 co-occ.