indie

anglicism recorded since 23/06/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

3,822
total occurrences
4.052
per million, total
2.958
per million, last year
5.160
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

indie (3,558) indies (264)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 2,000 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks33% in quotes
In quotation marks (33%) Without quotation marks (67%)
Morphological category
Noun (31%) Adjective (49%) Other / undetermined (20%)
Grammatical genderout of 1,349 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (72%) Feminine (28%)

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.

El País 855
La Vanguardia 553
20minutos 443
El Confidencial 417
ABC 371
El Mundo 333
Rolling Stone 238
elDiario.es 204
Fotogramas 158
Jot Down 83

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Culture 1,881
Front page 691
Music 238
Television 201
Film 158
Spain 148
Women's 98
Lifestyle 70

Words it appears with

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

música (138) cine (122) rock (112) español (108) pop (87) escena (75) banda (71) grupo (47) nacional (35) película (35) estadounidense (26) folk (20) española (19) panorama (18) the (18) festival (18) electrónica (17) bandas (17)

Contexts of use

3,708 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
indie Una sensación 'indie' tan obvia como irresistible, El Mundo Culture 17/07/2020
indie muchos festivales y locales de 'indie-rock,' 'Tubthumping El País Culture 14/07/2020
indies artistas pop como Rihanna o 'indies,' como Bon Iver) El País Front page 13/07/2020
indie arriesga volcar a su código intimista indie el cómic de Greg Rucka de El Mundo Culture 10/07/2020
indie semana a rock, al indie de los británicos Alt- El País Sports 10/07/2020
indie Pequeño circo: historia oral del indie en España, y el El País Front page 09/07/2020
indie Por su parte, el grupo indie pop Izal dará el pistoletazo de 20minutos Front page 03/07/2020
indie entrevistas con perfiles del mercado indie y contarán con una gran 20minutos Culture 23/06/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

shoegaze 11 co-occ.
trip hop 14 co-occ.
black metal 12 co-occ.
power pop 9 co-occ.
country-rock 4 co-occ.
britpop 11 co-occ.
hardcore 17 co-occ.
mainstream 44 co-occ.
post punk 7 co-occ.
techno 20 co-occ.
funk 16 co-occ.
underground 22 co-occ.
post-punk 8 co-occ.
line-up 6 co-occ.
dream pop 4 co-occ.
jam 4 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “indie”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.