exceptional vs weird

exceptional

adj
  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. 

  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. 

  • Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. 

noun
  • An exception, or something having an exceptional value 

weird

adj
  • Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. 

  • Deviating from the normal; bizarre. 

adv
  • In a strange manner. 

noun
  • Weirdness. 

  • That which comes to pass; a fact. 

  • A prediction. 

verb
  • To warn solemnly; adjure. 

  • To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. 

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