penchant vs tendency

penchant

noun
  • Taste, liking, or inclination (for). 

  • A card game resembling bezique. 

  • In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time. 

tendency

noun
  • A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward. 

  • An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation. 

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