wild card

anglicism recorded since 25/06/2020

Spelling variants: wildcard · wild-card

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

235
total occurrences
0.249
per million, total
0.202
per million, last year
0.290
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

wild card (184) wild cards (51)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 230 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks80% in quotes
In quotation marks (80%) Without quotation marks (20%)
Morphological category
Noun (76%) Adjective (10%) Other / undetermined (14%)
Grammatical genderout of 174 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (17%) Feminine (83%)

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.

Marca 56
La Vanguardia 45
El Mundo 37
El Confidencial 33
20minutos 30
ABC 23
El País 8
Men's Health 2
elDiario.es 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Sports 217
Front page 5
Television 5
Lifestyle 3
Men's 2
Economy 1
Society 1
Technology 1

Words it appears with

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

invitaciones (9) invitación (9) torneo (5) recibido (4) recibió (4) disputar (3) seis (3) nuevas (3) participar (3) yamaha (3) cuatro (3) mediante (3) vía (3) ktm (3) recibir (3) invitado (3) jugadores (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
wild card rodado muy poco. El balear iba a disputar varias carreras este año como 'wild card', pero la pandemia que se llevó por delante el calendario previsto, también 20minutos Front page 04/11/2020
wild card -4 en el torneo de Palma de Mallorca. "Él era un 'wild card' [invitado de la organización], un chico del que 'Carlos Moyà El Mundo Front page 04/11/2020
wild card lesiones; Andy Murray, 'wild card' ilustre, perdió en segunda El Mundo Front page 08/09/2020
wild card buen momento, quizás un wild card», auguró.. . ABC Sports 25/06/2020
wild card buen momento, quizás un 'wild card'», auguró. ABC Sports 25/06/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

sprint race 21 co-occ.
top100 7 co-occ.
top10 6 co-occ.
playoff 14 co-occ.
ranking 76 co-occ.
qualy 4 co-occ.
paddock 9 co-occ.
top-10 5 co-occ.
rookie 7 co-occ.
tie-break 7 co-occ.
pole 12 co-occ.
draft 5 co-occ.
major 4 co-occ.
top ten 5 co-occ.
box 4 co-occ.
top 10 co-occ.