confectionary vs sweets

confectionary

noun
  • Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery. 

  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection. 

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

  • Prepared as a confection. 

sweets

noun
  • Confectionery, candy. 

  • drugs, amphetamine 

  • A term of endearment; sweetheart. 

  • flowers, sweet-scented. 

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