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.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

La Vanguardia 102
El País 30
20minutos 8
El Confidencial 7
El Mundo 7
elDiario.es 4
El Mundo Today 3
La Marea 2
ABC 1
Elle 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Lifestyle 48
Front page 37
Culture 20
Sports 16
Spain 8
Economy 7
International 7
Opinion 7

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).

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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.

coworking 15 co-occ.
coliving 5 co-occ.
running 8 co-occ.
brunch 5 co-occ.
hub 6 co-occ.
startup 7 co-occ.
marketing 11 co-occ.
online 8 co-occ.
influencer 5 co-occ.
ranking 4 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “expat”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.