attribute vs impute

attribute

verb
  • To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc. 

  • To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. 

noun
  • That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident. 

  • A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated. 

  • An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention. 

  • A word that qualifies a noun. 

  • A characteristic or quality of a thing. 

  • An option or setting belonging to some object. 

impute

verb
  • To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. 

  • To replace missing data with substituted values. 

  • To take into account. 

  • To attribute or credit to. 

  • To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. 

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