botch vs mistake

botch

noun
  • A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing. 

  • An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work. 

  • A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge. 

  • A case or outbreak of boils or sores. 

  • A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 

verb
  • To repair or mend clumsily. 

  • To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily. 

  • To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something 

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