competent vs intelligent

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. 

intelligent

adj
  • Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. 

  • Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability. 

  • Characterized by thoughtful interaction. 

  • Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind. 

  • Well thought-out, well considered. 

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