tie-break

anglicism recorded since 29/08/2020

Spelling variants: tie break · tiebreak · tie - break

Frequency

Calculated from occurrences since 2020.

1,149

total occurrences

1.218

per million, total

1.113

per million, last year

1.392

per million, last month

Recorded forms

Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.

tie-break (1,105) tie-breaks (44)

Usage profile

Automatic estimate based on 1,110 contexts (since April 2020).

Quotation marks47% in quotes

In quotation marks (47%) Without quotation marks (53%)

Morphological category

Noun (85%) Adjective (11%) Other / undetermined (4%)

Grammatical genderout of 978 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.

El Confidencial 264

El Mundo 206

20minutos 177

La Vanguardia 165

ABC 160

Marca 106

El País 60

Agencia EFE 8

Jot Down 3

By section

What kind of news it appears in.

Sports 1,102

Front page 31

Spain 9

Culture 3

People 3

Technology 1

Words it appears with

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

super (49) segundo (43) forzar (35) tercer (30) forzó (25) súper (22) definitivo (20) llegó (19) set (19) final (16) decisivo (14) llegar (14) 7-6 (13) manga (9) ahí (8) alcaraz (8) partido (7) ante (7)

Contexts of use

1,110 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).

Form ⇅	Context	Outlet ⇅	Section ⇅	Date ↓
tie-break	un partido algo irregular, donde se vio forzada a un 'tie-break' antes de resolver la segunda manga por la vía rápida,	El Mundo	Sports	30/09/2020
tie-break	una con su saque, acabó cediendo a las puertas del 'tie-break' tras una serie de errores, doble falta incluida.. .	20minutos	Sports	22/09/2020
tie-break	foto-finish' del 'tie-break' final. Precioso y cruel	El País	Front page	14/09/2020
tie-break	cada uno para forzar el 'tie-break,' en el que Thiem	20minutos	Front page	14/09/2020
tie-breaks	, que se adjudicó los 'tie-breaks' de la segunda y la	El País	Sports	09/09/2020
tie-break	para sacar el hacha en el tie-break: un cruzado que salió como	El Mundo	Sports	09/09/2020
tie-break	. Tuvo que decidir el 'tie-break' y ahí no dejó pasar	20minutos	Sports	09/09/2020
tie-break	que se decidieron en el 'tie-break'.	Agencia EFE	Front page	07/09/2020
tie-break	para asegurarse al menos el 'tie-break'. En un gesto que	El Mundo	Front page	07/09/2020
tie-break	Flushing Meadows. Tras cerrar el tie-break del tercer set (4-	El Mundo	Sports	29/08/2020

Contextually related borrowings

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

break point 8 co-occ.

tie break 30 co-occ.

contrabreak 6 co-occ.

drive 14 co-occ.

winner 9 co-occ.

ranking 136 co-occ.

tiebreak 4 co-occ.

grand slam 5 co-occ.

warning 6 co-occ.

top-10 9 co-occ.

major 10 co-occ.

passing shot 6 co-occ.

passing 5 co-occ.

challenger 4 co-occ.

highlight 4 co-occ.

indoor 4 co-occ.

Borrowings containing “tie-break”

Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.

super tie-break 15

supertie-break 9

match tie-break 3

l tie-break 1