gist vs spell out

gist

verb
  • To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of. 

noun
  • The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith. 

spell out

verb
  • To form (a word) from letters; say the letters in a word. 

  • To explain in clear and simple terms; to be explicit. 

  • To replace an acronym with its expansion. 

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