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.
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 “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).
| 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.
indie rock
172
indie pop
121
indie-rock
65
indie-pop
45
indie sleaze
22
indie folk
20
indie-folk
10
rock indie
10
posindie
2