bestseller

anglicism recorded since 19/07/2020

Spelling variants: best seller · best-seller · best - seller

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

1,567
total occurrences
1.661
per million, total
1.542
per million, last year
2.029
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

bestseller (1,076) bestsellers (491)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 1,422 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks43% in quotes
In quotation marks (43%) Without quotation marks (57%)
Morphological category
Noun (71%) Adjective (22%) Other / undetermined (7%)
Grammatical genderout of 984 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (94%) Feminine (6%)

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.

El Confidencial 484
Elle 302
La Vanguardia 167
El Mundo 116
20minutos 115
El País 79
elDiario.es 62
Diez Minutos 61
Jot Down 53
ABC 41

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 378
Women's 363
Fashion 204
Front page 187
Television 95
Lifestyle 80
Technology 53
People 30

Words it appears with

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

autor (52) adaptación (33) the (27) autora (26) homónimo (25) new (23) internacional (23) auténtico (20) lista (18) mundial (18) amazon (17) adapta (16) novela (16) libro (15) autores (13) escritora (12) convirtió (12) nuestros (12)

Contexts of use

1,426 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
bestsellers Su última novela , ' La intriga del funeral inconveniente ' ( Seix Barral ) se ha convertido en uno de los bestsellers de la Feria del Libro de Madrid 2026 y en la obra más vendida en el pasado día de Sant Jordi . Elle Women's 22/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

fanfiction 10 co-occ.
spidey 4 co-occ.
romantasy 11 co-occ.
cozy crime 8 co-occ.
thriller 125 co-occ.
frizz 10 co-occ.
whodunit 4 co-occ.
skincare 10 co-occ.
made in 19 co-occ.
pack 34 co-occ.
gourmet 15 co-occ.
glow 8 co-occ.
suspense 9 co-occ.
streaming 45 co-occ.
showroom 7 co-occ.
mindfulness 10 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “bestseller”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.