twerking
anglicism recorded since 20/08/2020
Frequency
Calculated from occurrences since 2020.
235
total occurrences
0.249
per million, total
0.034
per million, last year
0.000
per million, last month
Recorded forms
Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.
twerking (234)
twerkings (1)
Usage profile
Automatic estimate based on 233 contexts (since April 2020).
Quotation marks68% in quotes
In quotation marks (68%)
Without quotation marks (32%)
Morphological category
Noun (42%)
Adjective (4%)
Other / undetermined (54%)
Grammatical genderout of 66 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.
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 “twerking”, according to the corpus examples.
haciendo (33)
bailar (21)
bailando (14)
baile (9)
perreo (8)
clases (6)
hacía (5)
junto (4)
hacen (4)
zoe (4)
poco (3)
mucho (3)
bailan (3)
vídeo (3)
freno (3)
bailaba (3)
baila (3)
ana (3)
Contexts of use
233 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).
| Form ⇅ | Context | Outlet ⇅ | Section ⇅ | Date ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| twerking | en el sensual baile del 'twerking', o perreo, con | El País | Front page | 22/08/2020 |
| twerking | un grupo de baile de 'twerking'. Con la esperanza de | El Mundo | Culture | 21/08/2020 |
| twerking | un grupo de baile de "twerking". Con la esperanza de | ABC | Television | 21/08/2020 |
| twerking | película sobre cómo Amy descubre el twerking, sobre cómo utiliza el baile | La Vanguardia | Television | 21/08/2020 |
| twerking | trama en la moda del 'twerking' -ese baile de origen caribeño | El Mundo | Front page | 20/08/2020 |
| twerking | niñas de 11 años bailando 'twerking'. En paralelo al éxito | El Mundo | Front page | 20/08/2020 |
| twerking | Desde posiciones liberales, el 'twerking' se defiende como una vía | El Mundo | Front page | 20/08/2020 |
| twerking | 11 años fascinadas con el 'twerking', y a la que | El Mundo | Front page | 20/08/2020 |
Contextually related borrowings
Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “twerking”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.
twerk
50 co-occ.
dancehall
11 co-occ.
trap
17 co-occ.
single
20 co-occ.
stripper
5 co-occ.
show
36 co-occ.
drag
6 co-occ.
hip hop
10 co-occ.
streamer
14 co-occ.
hater
8 co-occ.
hit
8 co-occ.
trending topic
5 co-occ.
performance
7 co-occ.
queer
7 co-occ.
mainstream
4 co-occ.
influencer
20 co-occ.