burnt vs scalding

burnt

adj
  • Having a sunburn. 

  • Being darker than standard, especially browner. 

  • Carbonised. 

  • Damaged or injured by fire or heat. 

scalding

adj
  • Hot enough to burn. 

noun
  • An instance of scalding: a burn. 

  • Synonym of escaline, (particularly) the form circulated by Stephen de Fulbourn in Ireland as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England. 

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