expat
anglicism recorded since 30/09/2022
Frequency
Calculated from occurrences since 2020.
166
total occurrences
0.176
per million, total
0.410
per million, last year
0.522
per million, last month
Recorded forms
Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.
expats (122)
expat (44)
Usage profile
Automatic estimate based on 153 contexts (since April 2020).
Quotation marks98% in quotes
In quotation marks (98%)
Without quotation marks (2%)
Morphological category
Noun (69%)
Adjective (22%)
Other / undetermined (9%)
Grammatical genderout of 107 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (92%)
Feminine (8%)
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.
By outlet
Where it is used most.
By section
What kind of news it appears in.
Words it appears with
Most frequent words in the immediate context of “expat”, according to the corpus examples.
turistas (5)
barcelona (5)
término (4)
muchos (3)
llamados (3)
comunidad (3)
Contexts of use
153 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).
| Form ⇅ | Context | Outlet ⇅ | Section ⇅ | Date ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| expats | Aquí no hay imágenes de ejecutivos con café mirando cristaleras infinitas ni promesas de ' hub ' creativo escritas en neón , sino que la propuesta gira alrededor de algo más terrenal : espacios luminosos , flexibles , llenos de verde y pensados para trabajadores híbridos , muchos ' expats ' , que ya no entienden la oficina como un simple lugar donde fichar . | 20minutos | Front page | 14/06/2026 |
| expats | En lo que respecta a Cataluña , algunas particularidades más : su proximidad con la frontera gala , la posibilidad de pasar desapercibido debido la gran afluencia de turistas y ' expats ' , y la marihuana : tras haberse convertido en la huerta de Europa . | ABC | Spain | 15/06/2026 |
| expats | Después del podio inicial , y según las manías o intereses de cada cual , surgirán nuevas tendencias como ' expats ' , sintecho o , en estos días , crimen organizado . | La Vanguardia | Front page | 20/06/2026 |
Contextually related borrowings
Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “expat”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.
Borrowings containing “expat”
Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.