confederate vs plotter

confederate

noun
  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher. 

adj
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 

  • banded together; allied. 

verb
  • To combine in a confederacy. 

plotter

noun
  • A person who plots. 

  • An author who usually relies on a plan or outline to organize their story. 

  • An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens. 

  • An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart. 

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