blunder vs mistake

blunder

noun
  • A clumsy or embarrassing mistake. 

  • A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight. 

verb
  • To make a clumsy or stupid mistake. 

  • To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. 

  • To move blindly or clumsily. 

  • To cause to make a mistake. 

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 blunder and mistake occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )