candy vs confectionary

candy

noun
  • Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors. 

  • A piece of confectionery of this kind. 

  • crack cocaine. 

  • An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene. 

verb
  • To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. 

  • To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup. 

  • To have sugar crystals form in or on. 

confectionary

noun
  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection. 

  • Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery. 

adj
  • Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production. 

  • Prepared as a confection. 

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