humbug vs mislead

humbug

verb
  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

  • To fight; to act tough. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

mislead

verb
  • To deceptively trick into something wrong. 

  • To lead astray, in a false direction. 

  • To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. 

  • To accidentally or intentionally confuse. 

noun
  • That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse). 

  • A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction. 

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