prime time

anglicism recorded since 24/06/2020

Spelling variants: prime-time · primetime

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

12,770
total occurrences
13.538
per million, total
14.523
per million, last year
18.786
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

prime time (12,729) prime times (39) prime time s (2)

Usage profile

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

Quotation marks31% in quotes
In quotation marks (31%) Without quotation marks (69%)
Morphological category
Noun (92%) Adjective (5%) Other / undetermined (3%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,201 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (100%) Feminine (0%)

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.

elDiario.es 6,017
La Vanguardia 1,329
El Mundo 1,297
20minutos 1,176
El Confidencial 1,152
Diez Minutos 705
El País 483
ABC 426
Marca 57
Jot Down 25

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Television 10,263
Women's 723
Opinion 415
Front page 408
Culture 161
Sports 145
People 128
International 104

Words it appears with

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

antena (59) franja (38) telecinco (35) programa (33) tardío (29) ofertas (25) access (23) serie (22) viernes (22) pleno (21) jueves (20) salto (20) dominical (19) lasexta (18) programas (18) martes (17) oferta (17) miércoles (17)

Contexts of use

12,479 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
prime time La cadena pública arrasa a partir de las 18h con el España-Arabia Saudí , cuyo amplísimo seguimiento en directo ( 55.9 % de share y 7.909.000 espectadores ) repercute positivamente a las posteriores ofertas de su parrilla , incluido el pospartido ( 31.3 % y 3.414.000 ) , el Telediario 2 ( 19.3 % y 2.011.000 ) y , por supuesto , al contenedor cinematográfico , que logra el récord antes mencionado y domina el prime time con ' Amenaza en el aire ' ( 15.2 % y 1.627.000 ) . elDiario.es Television 22/06/2026
prime time Centrándonos solo en el tardío prime time , así quedan las noches de Telecinco a partir de esta semana : elDiario.es Television 22/06/2026
prime time La que fuera protagonista del programa de prime time , ahora soltera ' adulta ' en ' Amor o lo que surja ' , ha centrado gran parte de la primera emisión con dos reencuentros de interés para el público que siguió en su día el programa de Bulldog TV , pero desconocidos para los espectadores que se hayan asomado este lunes sin conocer esos antecedentes . elDiario.es Television 22/06/2026
prime time Feijóo ha terminado de naturalizar los pactos con Vox aprovechando una entrevista en ' prime time ' en ' El hormiguero ' . ABC Spain 22/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

share 310 co-occ.
access 75 co-occ.
late 8 co-occ.
s weekend 5 co-occ.
pokerstar 4 co-occ.
shopping tv 4 co-occ.
late night 23 co-occ.
game show 5 co-occ.
show 117 co-occ.
reality 113 co-occ.
dating show 15 co-occ.
late show 10 co-occ.
talent show 22 co-occ.
blockbuster 21 co-occ.
talk show 9 co-occ.
target 9 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “prime time”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.