troll

anglicism recorded since 14/07/2020

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

716
total occurrences
0.759
per million, total
0.438
per million, last year
0.116
per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

trolls (526) troll (190)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 692 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks40% in quotes
In quotation marks (40%) Without quotation marks (60%)
Morphological category
Noun (70%) Adjective (15%) Other / undetermined (15%)
Grammatical genderout of 359 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (95%) Feminine (5%)

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.

La Vanguardia 137
El País 120
20minutos 104
El Confidencial 77
elDiario.es 70
El Mundo 54
El Salto 33
ABC 32
Jot Down 20
Fotogramas 14

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Front page 113
International 96
People 72
Technology 71
Culture 68
Television 54
Politics 44
Lifestyle 37

Words it appears with

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

internet (41) bots (22) granjas (17) fábrica (17) ejército (16) haters (15) granja (14) redes (12) fábricas (10) cuentas (10) rusos (9) twitter (7) algunos (7) mayor (6) cualquier (6) san (5) brownies (5) hechiceros (5)

Contexts of use

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

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Form Context Outlet Section Date
trolls mar adentro o lidiando con 'trolls' en Twitter?. . R. El País Front page 28/08/2020
trolls ?. . R. ¡Con 'trolls' ! Cuando se te monta El País Front page 28/08/2020
troll desde 2018 es el mayor "troll" del presidente en Twitter, El Mundo International 24/08/2020
troll sea inexpugnable. “Un 'troll' puede saturar los servicios de El País Front page 15/08/2020
troll está criando a un auténtico 'troll' que se ríe sin compasión 20minutos Lifestyle 14/08/2020
trolls ya debe conocer la cantidad de trolls que saltan con cada una de La Vanguardia Television 11/08/2020
trolls asunto. La amenaza de 'trolls' a la seguridad personal de El País International 11/08/2020
trolls porque ayudaría a frenar a los trolls que proliferan en la red. La Vanguardia Technology 07/08/2020
trolls cuentas anónimas son utilizadas como 'trolls' por el partido gubernamental para El País Front page 29/07/2020
trolls de 'bots' y 'trolls' (programas informáticos con cuentas El País International 21/07/2020
trolls la "utilización de bots y trolls" en Twitter para intentar influir El Mundo International 21/07/2020
trolls . La primera granja de ‘trolls’ rusos, a veces llamada El Confidencial International 20/07/2020
trolls 'Zapatos rojos y los siete trolls', una cinta infantil de La Vanguardia Culture 16/07/2020
trolls un ciberataque contra una granja de trolls en Rusia. Un centro que La Vanguardia Technology 14/07/2020
trolls Unidos realizó un ciberataque contra ‘trolls’ rusos El presidente de La Vanguardia Technology 14/07/2020
trolls de Rusia, una granja de trolls con sede en San Petersburgo. La Vanguardia Technology 14/07/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

dislike 15 co-occ.
review bombing 9 co-occ.
bot 58 co-occ.
woke 32 co-occ.
hate 15 co-occ.
trol 8 co-occ.
establishment 22 co-occ.
alt-right 8 co-occ.
hater 31 co-occ.
fandom 9 co-occ.
online 100 co-occ.
timeline 4 co-occ.
scroll 9 co-occ.
deepfake 16 co-occ.
tick 4 co-occ.
showrunner 14 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “troll”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.