wild card
anglicism recorded since 25/06/2020
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.
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 “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).
| 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.