hapless vs ill-fated

hapless

adj
  • Very unlucky; ill-fated. 

  • miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn. 

  • Devoid of talent or skill. 

  • unfortunate. 

ill-fated

adj
  • unlucky; doomed. 

How often have the words hapless and ill-fated occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )