pick-up

anglicism recorded since 12/07/2020

Spelling variants: pick up · pickup · pic kup

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

808
total occurrences
0.857
per million, total
1.031
per million, last year
2.435
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

pick-up (722) pick-ups (86)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 771 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks13% in quotes
In quotation marks (13%) Without quotation marks (87%)
Morphological category
Noun (65%) Adjective (22%) Other / undetermined (13%)
Grammatical genderout of 574 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (55%) Feminine (45%)

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 295
20minutos 176
ABC 160
El Mundo 53
El País 40
El Confidencial 25
Muy Interesante 23
Marca 15
elDiario.es 9
El Economista 6

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Motor 599
Front page 43
International 38
Economy 28
Science 23
Sports 18
Spain 18
Technology 11

Words it appears with

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

eléctrico (26) eléctrica (25) vehículos (16) camioneta (15) cybertruck (15) furgonetas (14) camionetas (13) ford (13) ranger (13) hilux (13) vendido (11) suv (10) todoterreno (9) doble (9) modelo (9) enorme (8) isuzu (6) robusto (6)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
pick-up Santana 400 PHEV : 429 CV y 1.046 kilómetros de autonomía para una pick-up con etiqueta Cero 20minutos Motor 18/06/2026
pick-up La oferta se completa con la versión híbrida enchufable del pick-up Ranger , donde también es posible acceder a BlueCruise . La Vanguardia Motor 18/06/2026
pick-ups Muchos de los trabajadores que hoy ensamblan los modelos de Ebro recorren los mismos pasillos por los que durante años salieron las pick-ups y furgonetas de Nissan . elDiario.es Economy 22/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

off-road 73 co-occ.
side-by-side 4 co-occ.
renting 79 co-occ.
pickup 18 co-occ.
pick up 25 co-occ.
cybertruck 7 co-occ.
concept 12 co-occ.
crossover 22 co-occ.
mild hybrid 9 co-occ.
stand 19 co-occ.
offroad 5 co-occ.
airbag 13 co-occ.
e-power 5 co-occ.
buggy 5 co-occ.
joint venture 11 co-occ.
roadster 5 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “pick-up”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.