competent vs expert

competent

adj
  • Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications. 

  • Resistant to deformation or flow. 

  • Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question. 

  • Adequate for the purpose. 

  • Permeable to foreign DNA. 

expert

adj
  • Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable. 

  • Characteristic of an expert. 

noun
  • A player ranking just below master. 

  • A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject. 

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