bungle vs mistake

bungle

noun
  • A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder. 

verb
  • To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble. 

  • To act or work incompetently; to fumble. 

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