falsehood vs fib

falsehood

noun
  • A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie. 

  • The property of being false. 

fib

noun
  • A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. 

  • A liar. 

  • The fibula. 

  • A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. 

verb
  • To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. 

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