lax vs lew

lax

adj
  • Loose; not tight or taut. 

  • Lacking care; neglectful, negligent. 

  • Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict. 

  • Describing an associative monoidal functor. 

noun
  • Lacrosse. 

  • A salmon. 

lew

adj
  • Weak. 

  • Lukewarm, tepid. 

  • Alee: protected from the wind. 

  • Sickly-looking, pale, wan. 

verb
  • To make warm or lukewarm. 

  • To shelter from the wind. 

noun
  • Warmth, heat. 

  • A shelter from the wind, particularly temporary structures raised by shepherds to protect their flocks. 

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