no vs what

no

intj
  • disgust 

  • vehement rejection of truthfulness 

  • mild disapproval 

particle
  • Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition. 

  • Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement. 

  • Used to show agreement with a negative question. 

prep
  • not, does not, do not, etc. 

  • without 

  • like 

adv
  • Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives. 

  • not 

  • Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives. 

noun
  • a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval 

  • a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition 

det
  • Not any. 

  • Hardly any. 

  • Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully. 

  • Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something). 

what

intj
  • An expression of surprise or disbelief. 

  • Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information. 

  • What! That’s amazing! 

  • What did you say? I beg your pardon? 

  • What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. 

pron
  • That which; those that; the thing(s) that. 

  • That; which; who. 

  • Anything that; all that; whatever. 

  • Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc. 

adv
  • In what way; to what extent. 

  • Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions. 

particle
  • Emphasizes the truth of an assertion made to contradict an evidently false assumption held by the listener. 

noun
  • Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who. 

  • The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. 

det
  • Any ... that; all ... that; whatever. 

  • Used to form exclamations. 

  • Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities. 

  • Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'. 

  • Which; the ... that. 

How often have the words no and what occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )