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young adult

anglicism recorded since 19/09/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

83
total occurrences
0.088
per million, total
0.096
per million, last year
0.232
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

young adult (79) young adults (4)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 77 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks77% in quotes
In quotation marks (77%) Without quotation marks (23%)
Morphological category
Noun (27%) Adjective (38%) Other / undetermined (35%)
Grammatical genderout of 47 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (64%) Feminine (36%)

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.

20minutos 30
El País 11
La Vanguardia 11
Fotogramas 10
ABC 8
elDiario.es 5
Elle 3
Jot Down 2
Diez Minutos 1
El Mundo 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Front page 32
Culture 26
Film 10
Women's 4
Opinion 4
Television 3
Spain 1
Lifestyle 1

Words it appears with

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

fantasía (4) corte (4) género (4) novelas (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form ⇅ Context Outlet ⇅ Section ⇅ Date ↑
young adult La elegida es otra saga literaria ' young adult ' , cuyo primer libro se titula ' Icebreaker ' y estuvo entre los más vendidos del ' New York Times' durante 70 semanas . 20minutos Front page 18/06/2026
young adult El young adult romántico se halla cómodo en este tipo de competiciones , y un exponente de tantos es el fenómeno literario que conocemos en España como ' Romper el hielo ' . 20minutos Front page 18/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

romantasy 8 co-occ.
slasher 12 co-occ.
fandom 8 co-occ.
showrunner 14 co-occ.
revival 8 co-occ.
reboot 8 co-occ.
queer 14 co-occ.
spin-off 15 co-occ.
mainstream 7 co-occ.
podcast 31 co-occ.
merchandising 5 co-occ.
streaming 21 co-occ.
film 4 co-occ.
blockbuster 5 co-occ.
thriller 16 co-occ.
true crime 4 co-occ.