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.

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By outlet

Where it is used most.

20minutos 58
La Vanguardia 58
El Mundo 27
El País 25
elDiario.es 16
ABC 14
El Confidencial 14
Marca 7
El Mundo Today 6
Rolling Stone 3

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Television 70
Culture 43
Front page 34
People 18
Lifestyle 17
Sports 15
Technology 7
Humour 6

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).

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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.