idiot vs pedant

idiot

noun
  • A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. 

  • A person of low general intelligence. 

adj
  • idiotic, stupid 

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 idiot and pedant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )