mistake vs teeter

mistake

verb
  • To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. 

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. 

teeter

verb
  • To be indecisive. 

  • To be close to becoming a typically negative situation. 

  • To tilt back and forth on an edge. 

noun
  • A teeter-totter or seesaw. 

How often have the words mistake and teeter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )