selfy
anglicism recorded since 15/06/2020
Frequency
Calculated from occurrences since 2020.
2,245
total occurrences
2.380
per million, total
1.624
per million, last year
1.971
per million, last month
Recorded forms
Variants of this lemma documented in the corpus.
selfies (2,245)
Usage profile
Automatic estimate based on 2,000 contexts (since April 2020).
Quotation marks33% in quotes
In quotation marks (33%)
Without quotation marks (67%)
Morphological category
Noun (45%)
Adjective (10%)
Other / undetermined (45%)
Grammatical genderout of 561 uses with a gender cue
Masculine (73%)
Feminine (27%)
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.
By outlet
Where it is used most.
By section
What kind of news it appears in.
Words it appears with
Most frequent words in the immediate context of “selfy”, according to the corpus examples.
hacerse (156)
haciéndose (74)
fotos (47)
hacen (47)
cámara (45)
videollamadas (37)
varios (30)
tomarse (20)
incluso (20)
frontal (20)
vídeos (20)
mejores (19)
tomar (19)
ellos (19)
hacían (19)
junto (19)
frente (18)
autógrafos (18)
Contexts of use
2,138 unique documented contexts, from most recent to oldest (republished articles are shown only once).
| Form ⇅ | Context | Outlet ⇅ | Section ⇅ | Date ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| selfies | tocado varias veces, enviado 'selfies' en ropa interior y mensajes | El Mundo | International | 13/07/2020 |
| selfies | , la cámara para los «selfies», ese hábito de hacerse | ABC | Technology | 13/07/2020 |
| selfies | los visitantes se pueden hacer selfies manteniendo la distancia física con | 20minutos | Front page | 11/07/2020 |
| selfies | . No es costumbre mía tomar selfies ni publicarlas en Facebook. Esta | 20minutos | Front page | 11/07/2020 |
| selfies | vídeos para los amigos o los selfies macarras con filtros de los protagonistas | El Mundo | Culture | 10/07/2020 |
| selfies | foto compara una serie de selfies en tiempo real con las | 20minutos | Front page | 09/07/2020 |
| selfies | permite ampliar el campo y realizar selfies de grupo con toda comodidad. | ABC | Technology | 08/07/2020 |
| selfies | .. . La doble cámara de selfies permite tomas en cámara lenta y | ABC | Technology | 08/07/2020 |
| selfies | ultra angular de 8 megapíxeles para selfies de grupo. Detrás, encontramos | ABC | Technology | 08/07/2020 |
| selfies | . La doble cámara de selfies permite tomas en cámara lenta y | ABC | Technology | 08/07/2020 |
| selfies | influencer ha compartido dos selfies con la camiseta levantada para | La Vanguardia | People | 26/06/2020 |
| selfies | quién le estás regalando tus 'selfies'. | El Confidencial | Technology | 15/06/2020 |
| selfies | quién le estás regalando tus selfies. | El Confidencial | Technology | 15/06/2020 |
Contextually related borrowings
Borrowings that appear in the same articles as “selfy”: thematic or semantic neighbours in the corpus.
Borrowings containing “selfy”
Other lemmas in the corpus built on the same word.