lapse vs mistake

lapse

noun
  • A temporary failure; a slip. 

  • A decline or fall in standards. 

  • A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective. 

  • A pause in continuity. 

  • A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air. 

  • A fall or apostasy. 

  • An interval of time between events. 

  • A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect. 

  • memory lapse 

verb
  • To fall away gradually; to subside. 

  • To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid. 

  • To become void. 

  • To fall into error or heresy. 

  • To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee. 

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