joke vs want

joke

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

want

verb
  • To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. 

  • To desire (to experience desire); to wish. 

  • To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). 

  • To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). 

  • To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. 

  • To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. 

noun
  • A desire, wish, longing. 

  • Poverty. 

  • Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. 

  • A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. 

  • Lack, absence, deficiency. 

  • A mole (Talpa europea). 

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