fizzle vs mistake

fizzle

noun
  • An abortive effort; a flop or dud. 

  • Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing. 

  • A state of agitation or worry. 

  • A spluttering or hissing sound. 

verb
  • To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing. 

  • To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. 

  • To sputter or hiss. 

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