pixie

anglicism recorded since 13/08/2022

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

670
total occurrences
0.710
per million, total
0.959
per million, last year
0.522
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

pixie (670)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 552 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks16% in quotes
In quotation marks (16%) Without quotation marks (84%)
Morphological category
Noun (59%) Adjective (23%) Other / undetermined (18%)
Grammatical genderout of 405 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (99%) Feminine (1%)

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.

Elle 204
20minutos 176
El Confidencial 93
La Vanguardia 74
ABC 68
Diez Minutos 27
El Mundo 22
El País 6

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Women's 231
Front page 204
Lifestyle 125
Fashion 93
People 11
Television 3
Culture 2
Spain 1

Words it appears with

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

corte (100) pelo (49) bob (30) corto (18) estilo (16) flequillo (15) crecido (10) largo (10) capas (8) clásico (8) hollywood (7) texturizado (6) cortes (6) versión (5) perfecto (5) tradicional (5) melena (5) platino (4)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
pixie Ayúdate con accesorios para el cabello Acepta que va a haber una época rara , que el bob , el corte pixie por el que optaste y que tanto te favorecía o el peinado que sea mola mucho , pero la transición no tanto . Elle Women's 19/09/2022
pixie Cortes de pelo de media melena ' bob ' con o sin largos asimétricos , cortos ' pixie ' , miniflequillos y degradados , colores de todo tipo y melenas largas que se reinventan para dar un toque completamente moderno . La Vanguardia Fashion 16/09/2022
pixie Charo García del salón Ilitia Beauty & Science apuesta por « el pixie desfilado , despuntado o ' spiky ' mucho más atrevido y desenfadado , por eso rejuvenece y refresca . ABC Lifestyle 15/09/2022
pixie El ' clavicut ' , el ' bob ' en sus diferentes versiones o el pixie serán algunos de los cortes de pelo tendencia de este otoño , sin olvidar el flequillo que se puede lucir tanto en cortos , como en melenas más largas . ABC Lifestyle 15/09/2022
pixie Lo siguen la permanente (# perm ) , la fiebre por las horquillas (# clawclips ) o el corte pixie (# pixiecut ) . Elle Women's 12/09/2022
pixie de lo que es, mientras que los cortes de pelo (tanto un 'pixie' como un 'bob') nos harán parecer más altas.. . GTRES 20minutos Front page 13/08/2022

Contextually related borrowings

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

mullet 169 co-occ.
mixie 31 co-occ.
bixie 27 co-occ.
shag 31 co-occ.
education manager 31 co-occ.
curve cut 16 co-occ.
box bob 22 co-occ.
bob 68 co-occ.
baby bang 38 co-occ.
long bob 49 co-occ.
long layer 11 co-occ.
bob boy 7 co-occ.
lob 22 co-occ.
hush cut 11 co-occ.
bowl cut 7 co-occ.
french bob 15 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “pixie”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.