pang vs twinge

pang

verb
  • To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. 

  • simple past tense of ping 

noun
  • A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. 

  • A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. 

twinge

verb
  • To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. 

  • To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain. 

  • To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. 

noun
  • A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. 

  • A sudden sharp pain. 

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