delusion vs mistake

delusion

noun
  • The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody. 

  • A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts. 

  • A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary. 

  • That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. 

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