inkling vs mistake

inkling

noun
  • Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion. 

  • Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given. 

  • A desire, an inclination. 

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