cess vs hex

cess

noun
  • Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success. 

  • An assessed tax, duty, or levy. 

  • The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage. 

verb
  • To levy a cess. 

hex

noun
  • An evil spell or curse. 

  • A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). 

  • A hexagonal space on a game board. 

  • A witch. 

  • a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock. 

verb
  • To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. 

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