freak

anglicism recorded since 09/07/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

335
total occurrences
0.355
per million, total
0.390
per million, last year
0.116
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

freak (198) freaks (137)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 328 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks61% in quotes
In quotation marks (61%) Without quotation marks (39%)
Morphological category
Noun (48%) Adjective (35%) Other / undetermined (17%)
Grammatical genderout of 171 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (80%) Feminine (20%)

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 63
El País 54
20minutos 44
elDiario.es 44
El Confidencial 39
Rolling Stone 20
El Mundo 17
Fotogramas 17
ABC 13
Jot Down 12

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 137
Front page 53
Television 27
Music 20
Opinion 20
Film 17
Fashion 16
People 10

Words it appears with

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

cultura (10) control (7) poco (6) soy (4) personas (4) personajes (3) circense (3) mundo (3) delirio (3) circo (3) círculo (3) éramos (3) personaje (3) noche (3)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
freak glosada en documentales de cinefilia 'freak' como 'Electric bogaloo' elDiario.es Front page 29/08/2020
freak da una vuelta de tuerca 'freak' a esos valores. Viajando El País Front page 17/08/2020
freak impuestos? Pues sí, freak, y no solo porque El Confidencial Culture 09/07/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

nerd 32 co-occ.
geek 13 co-occ.
dark 13 co-occ.
power pop 4 co-occ.
show 90 co-occ.
friki 4 co-occ.
fanzine 11 co-occ.
funk 7 co-occ.
performance 25 co-occ.
indie 16 co-occ.
underground 10 co-occ.
hit 21 co-occ.
guay 9 co-occ.
thriller 39 co-occ.
remake 14 co-occ.
blockbuster 11 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “freak”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.