play off

anglicism recorded since 17/07/2020

Spelling variants: playoff · play-off

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

629
total occurrences
0.667
per million, total
0.573
per million, last year
1.855
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

play off (608) play offs (21)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 626 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks23% in quotes
In quotation marks (23%) Without quotation marks (77%)
Morphological category
Noun (96%) Adjective (2%) Other / undetermined (2%)
Grammatical genderout of 548 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (100%) Feminine (0%)

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.

ABC 511
Marca 41
El Confidencial 17
El País 17
La Vanguardia 14
El Mundo 11
20minutos 10
Agencia EFE 4
Men's Health 3
elDiario.es 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Sports 342
Spain 265
Front page 11
Economy 5
Men's 3
Culture 1
International 1
Opinion 1

Words it appears with

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

ascenso (171) final (50) ida (24) acceso (24) jugar (23) puestos (15) disputar (12) ronda (11) partido (10) zona (10) ante (9) vuelta (9) puntos (9) sueño (7) eliminatoria (7) cierran (6) posible (6) equipo (6)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
play off conformarse con pelear en los "play off" tras perder frente a la Agencia EFE Front page 17/07/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

play-off 30 co-occ.
market pool 4 co-occ.
playoff 10 co-occ.
hat-trick 6 co-occ.
top 10 co-occ.
online 12 co-occ.
streaming 6 co-occ.
ranking 7 co-occ.