helter-skelter vs perplexity

helter-skelter

noun
  • Confusion or turmoil. 

  • A helical fairground slide. 

adv
  • In confused, disorderly haste. 

adj
  • Carelessly hurried and confused. 

perplexity

noun
  • The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused. 

  • Something that perplexes. 

  • In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample. 

How often have the words helter-skelter and perplexity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )