fay vs fey

fay

adj
  • Fairy like. 

  • White; white-skinned. 

  • Fitted closely together. 

noun
  • A fairy. 

  • A white person. 

verb
  • To cleanse; clean out. 

  • To join (pieces of timber) tightly. 

  • Of pieces of timber: to lie close together. 

fey

adj
  • Magical or fairylike. 

  • Overrefined, affected. 

  • Strange or otherworldly. 

  • Spellbound. 

  • Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience. 

noun
  • Fairy folk collectively. 

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