failure vs miscue

failure

noun
  • State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. 

  • Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done. 

  • Bankruptcy. 

  • An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success. 

  • Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. 

miscue

noun
  • The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. 

  • In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. 

  • A miss of the object one intended to hit. 

verb
  • to mishit, strike incorrectly. 

  • To give an incorrect cue. 

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