dotted vs peppered

dotted

adj
  • That contains dots. 

  • Covered with irregularly scattered objects. 

  • Made up of a series of dots. 

  • With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note. 

peppered

adj
  • Seasoned with pepper. 

  • Speckled. 

  • Coordinate term: riddled 

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