novelette vs tale

novelette

noun
  • A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano. 

  • A short novel. 

tale

noun
  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 

  • The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. 

  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. 

  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. 

verb
  • To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. 

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