pipedream vs surmise

pipedream

surmise

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

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