confederate vs helper

confederate

noun
  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher. 

verb
  • To combine in a confederacy. 

adj
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 

  • banded together; allied. 

helper

noun
  • One who helps; an aide; assistant; auxiliary. 

  • That which helps; anything serving to assist. 

  • A locomotive that assists a train, usually on steep gradients. 

  • A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee. 

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