Alpha vs Root

Alpha

name
  • A city and village in Minnesota, United States 

  • A ghost town in California, United States (USA). 

  • A village in Michigan, United States. 

  • A town in Queensland, Australia. 

  • A village in Illinois, United States. 

  • A borough of New Jersey, United States. 

  • Former name of the International Space Station. 

  • A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004. 

Root

name
  • A river in Wisconsin, United States. 

  • A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland. 

  • A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name. 

  • A town in New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root. 

  • A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)). 

  • An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”). 

  • An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player. 

How often have the words Alpha and Root occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )