breathlessness vs whoop

breathlessness

noun
  • The state of being breathless or out of breath. 

  • Difficult or labored respiration, dyspnea, shortness of breath 

whoop

noun
  • A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough. 

  • A bump on a racetrack. 

  • A loud, eager cry, usually of joy. 

verb
  • To make a whoop. 

  • To shout, to yell. 

  • To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. 

  • To beat, to strike. 

  • To defeat thoroughly. 

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