mare vs nightmare

mare

noun
  • A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience. 

  • On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons. 

  • A foolish woman. 

  • An adult female horse. 

  • A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea. 

nightmare

noun
  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

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