alone vs helpless

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

helpless

adj
  • Lacking help; powerless. 

  • Unable to defend oneself. 

  • Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble. 

  • Uncontrollable. 

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