peppered vs speckled

peppered

adj
  • Coordinate term: riddled 

  • Speckled. 

  • Seasoned with pepper. 

speckled

adj
  • Marked with dots or spots, spotted. 

  • Sporadically and irregularly marked. 

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