best seller

anglicism recorded since 24/06/2020

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

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

2,094
total occurrences
2.220
per million, total
1.691
per million, last year
0.870
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

best seller (1,477) best sellers (616) best séller (1)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 1,952 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks56% in quotes
In quotation marks (56%) Without quotation marks (44%)
Morphological category
Noun (75%) Adjective (18%) Other / undetermined (7%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,372 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (97%) Feminine (3%)

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 487
El País 337
20minutos 199
Elle 187
El Mundo 184
El Confidencial 157
ABC 125
elDiario.es 107
Marca 105
Diez Minutos 55

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 597
Front page 424
Women's 242
Lifestyle 177
Fashion 119
Sports 109
People 69
Television 58

Words it appears with

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

autor (58) amazon (41) autora (40) auténtico (33) adaptación (28) mundial (27) homónimo (27) the (24) internacional (24) auténticos (20) lista (18) sido (15) libro (15) escritor (15) libros (14) siendo (14) autores (13) convertido (13)

Contexts of use

1,951 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
best seller Sentía un odio profundo hacia Tom Wolfe , autor del ' best seller ' ' La hoguera de las vanidades ' , y odiaba a Gore Vidal , la celebridad más eminente y a quien le propinó varios puñetazos en público , una vez en televisión y dos veces en cócteles . El Confidencial Culture 21/06/2026

Contextually related borrowings

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

steak 30 co-occ.
cashmere 16 co-occ.
pack 76 co-occ.
skincare 16 co-occ.
thriller 60 co-occ.
young adult 4 co-occ.
boutique 18 co-occ.
noir 8 co-occ.
packaging 10 co-occ.
beat 4 co-occ.
beauty 8 co-occ.
bum 7 co-occ.
glow 6 co-occ.
must 6 co-occ.
suspense 7 co-occ.
layering 4 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “best seller”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.