bewilderment vs confuddle

bewilderment

noun
  • The state of being bewildered. 

  • A confusing or perplexing situation. 

confuddle

noun
  • The state of confusion and/or being befuddled. 

verb
  • To confuse thoroughly. 

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