amend vs mistake

amend

noun
  • An act of righting a wrong; compensation. 

verb
  • To make better; improve. 

  • To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. 

  • To become better. 

mistake

noun
  • An error; a blunder. 

  • A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place. 

verb
  • To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. 

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