letter vs minute

letter

noun
  • A written or printed communication, generally longer and more formal than a note. 

  • A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm. 

  • Literature. 

  • A size of paper, 8½ in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm, US paper sizes rounded to the nearest 5 mm). 

  • A symbol in an alphabet. 

  • A division unit of a piece of law marked by a letter of the alphabet. 

  • One who lets, or lets out. 

  • The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit). 

verb
  • To print, inscribe, or paint letters on something. 

  • To earn a varsity letter (award). 

minute

noun
  • A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting. 

  • A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree. 

  • An old coin, a half farthing. 

  • A nautical or a geographic mile. 

  • A short but unspecified time period. 

  • A point in time; a moment. 

  • A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour). 

  • A fixed part of a module. 

  • A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network. 

  • A while or a long unspecified period of time 

adj
  • Very small. 

  • Very careful and exact, giving small details. 

verb
  • To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. 

  • Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. 

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