befuddle vs flummox

befuddle

verb
  • To perplex, confuse (someone). 

  • To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol. 

flummox

verb
  • To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast. 

  • To give in, to give up, to collapse. 

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