charlatan vs phony

charlatan

noun
  • A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit. 

phony

noun
  • Anything fraudulent or fake. 

  • A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. 

  • A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. 

adj
  • Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance. 

verb
  • To fake. 

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