railgun

anglicism recorded since 14/02/2022

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

34
total occurrences
0.036
per million, total
0.140
per million, last year
0.000
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

railgun (24) railguns (10)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 26 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks46% in quotes
In quotation marks (46%) Without quotation marks (54%)
Morphological category
Noun (85%) Adjective (4%) Other / undetermined (11%)
Grammatical genderout of 17 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (94%) Feminine (6%)

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 Confidencial 30
ABC 4

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Technology 30
International 4

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
railguns futuro. China cree haber encontrado la solución a los problemas técnicos de los ‘railguns’ estadounidenses, los futuristas cañones electromagnéticos capaces de lanzar proyectiles hipersónicos de me El Confidencial Technology 14/02/2022