narrate vs spell out

narrate

verb
  • To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. 

  • To give an account. 

spell out

verb
  • To form (a word) from letters; say the letters in a word. 

  • To explain in clear and simple terms; to be explicit. 

  • To replace an acronym with its expansion. 

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