distort vs misstate

distort

verb
  • To give a false or misleading account of 

  • To become misshapen. 

  • To bring something out of shape, to misshape. 

misstate

verb
  • To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue. 

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