in no way vs not

in no way

prep
  • never ever; not for any reason 

  • in no sense 

not

adv
  • Negates the meaning of the modified verb. 

  • To no degree. 

  • Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement. 

  • ‘Do they know?’ ‘I believe not’ (formal) 

conj
  • And not. 

intj
  • Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. 

How often have the words in no way and not occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )