finalist vs sophomore

finalist

noun
  • A university student in their final year of study. 

  • A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study). 

  • Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 

sophomore

noun
  • A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school. 

  • A three-year-old horse. 

adj
  • The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university. 

  • Sophomoric. 

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