assassin vs hangman

assassin

noun
  • Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure. 

  • Any ruthless killer. 

  • A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period. 

verb
  • To assassinate. 

hangman

noun
  • An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. 

  • Someone responsible for hanging pictures and other artworks in a gallery, museum etc. 

  • A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows. 

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