nitpicker vs pedant

nitpicker

noun
  • One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details). 

pedant

noun
  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

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