funky

anglicism recorded since 31/07/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

265
total occurrences
0.281
per million, total
0.212
per million, last year
0.174
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

funky (250) funkies (12) funkys (3)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 254 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks17% in quotes
In quotation marks (17%) Without quotation marks (83%)
Morphological category
Noun (33%) Adjective (41%) Other / undetermined (26%)
Grammatical genderout of 131 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (78%) Feminine (22%)

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 80
El País 39
Rolling Stone 38
20minutos 25
El Mundo 24
ABC 17
elDiario.es 14
El Confidencial 11
Elle 7
Jot Down 5

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 105
Front page 47
Music 38
Lifestyle 22
Television 17
Spain 10
People 8
Women's 7

Words it appears with

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

música (8) toque (8) disco (8) estilo (8) pop (7) jazz (6) ritmo (6) guitarra (5) sonidos (5) hop (5) ritmos (4) algo (4) rock (4) espíritu (3) soul (3) bajo (3) electrónica (3) callos (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
funky , guardando sus características huellas de 'hip-hop' más ambiental y 'funky', pero no deja de supurar orgullo herido afroamericano en composiciones como ‘Ultra El País Front page 17/10/2020
funky . . 'Can't Put It in the Hands of the Fate' es un tema funky y vitalista en el que Wonder conecta con las reivindicaciones antirracistas de Black Lives Matter El Mundo Culture 14/10/2020
funky usó un sample de un músico funky californiano de los 70, Gnarls elDiario.es Front page 23/08/2020
funky especie de cruce entre el 'funky' y los viejos blues hablados El País Front page 17/08/2020
funky . P’alante. Encadenaron con la funky 'Estamos mal' mientras el La Vanguardia Front page 31/07/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

funk 49 co-occ.
freestyle 28 co-occ.
groove 15 co-occ.
trap 42 co-occ.
hip-hop 50 co-occ.
feat 8 co-occ.
featuring 8 co-occ.
hard-rock 5 co-occ.
boogie 5 co-occ.
party 8 co-occ.
house 14 co-occ.
indie 38 co-occ.
techno 18 co-occ.
soul 9 co-occ.
hip hop 50 co-occ.
free jazz 5 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “funky”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.