play-off

anglicism recorded since 15/07/2020

Spelling variants: playoff · play off

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

703
total occurrences
0.745
per million, total
0.766
per million, last year
1.276
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

play-off (511) play-offs (192)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 660 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks30% in quotes
In quotation marks (30%) Without quotation marks (70%)
Morphological category
Noun (95%) Adjective (3%) Other / undetermined (2%)
Grammatical genderout of 498 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.

Marca 192
ABC 145
El Confidencial 130
La Vanguardia 71
20minutos 58
El País 54
Agencia EFE 22
El Mundo 21
elDiario.es 9
Fotogramas 1

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Sports 559
Spain 74
Front page 36
Television 15
Economy 9
Media 3
Culture 2
People 2

Words it appears with

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

ascenso (110) final (35) jugar (29) puestos (24) eliminatoria (22) ronda (15) ida (15) semifinales (14) eliminatorios (13) clasificación (12) previo (11) acceso (10) vuelta (10) disputar (10) ante (10) regional (9) fase (8) plazas (6)

Contexts of use

666 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 se disputó la final del 'play-off' entre los dos subcampeones de ABC Spain 27/07/2020
play-off después de ganar la final del play-off de ascenso a la Segunda División 20minutos Sports 27/07/2020
play-off después de ganar la final del play-off de ascenso a la Sabadell 20minutos Sports 27/07/2020
play-off llevaría al Elche a jugar 'play-off'. El Deportivo, que 20minutos Front page 26/07/2020
play-off Portugalete-Sestao River, del play-off de ascenso a Segunda División B La Vanguardia Front page 25/07/2020
play-off por resolver el embrollo del 'play-off' de ascenso, con tres El País Front page 24/07/2020
play-off el Deportivo y luego el 'play-off' ? R. Lo primero El País Sports 24/07/2020
play-offs una histórica clasificación para los 'play-offs' de ascenso a LaLiga Santander El Mundo Sports 22/07/2020
play-off que le meta en el 'Play-off' de ascenso a LaLiga Santander 20minutos Front page 21/07/2020
play-off plaza, que da acceso al play-off de ascenso. Sin embargo, 20minutos Front page 20/07/2020
play-off Incidencias: Semifinales del «play-off» de ascenso a Segunda B ABC Spain 19/07/2020
play-off Primera y ya piensan en el play-off de ascenso. Al final ABC Sports 17/07/2020
play-off ha anunciado que los partidos del play-off exprés de ascenso a la Segunda La Vanguardia Sports 16/07/2020
play-off anunciado que los partidos del ' play-off exprés' de ascenso a la La Vanguardia Sports 16/07/2020
play-off permitirá público en los partidos del play-off a Segunda B La Federación La Vanguardia Sports 16/07/2020
play-off un año al Deportivo en el play-off final que suponía el regreso a ABC Sports 15/07/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

goal-average 5 co-occ.
play-in 17 co-occ.
backcourt 4 co-occ.
quarterback 19 co-occ.
roster 7 co-occ.
play off 21 co-occ.
playoff 31 co-occ.
pívot 6 co-occ.
touchdown 8 co-occ.
bracket 14 co-occ.
cheline 4 co-occ.
draft 14 co-occ.
split 7 co-occ.
top-8 4 co-occ.
staff 17 co-occ.
average 4 co-occ.