police vs spell

police

verb
  • To enforce norms or standards upon. 

  • To clean up an area. 

  • To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). 

noun
  • The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer. 

  • Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government. 

  • A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory. 

  • A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. 

  • A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly 

  • People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. 

  • Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. 

spell

verb
  • To constitute; to measure. 

  • To be able to write or say the letters that form words. 

  • To work in place of (someone). 

  • To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break. 

  • To clarify; to explain in detail. 

  • Of letters: to compose (a word). 

  • To indicate that (some event) will occur. 

  • To rest from work for a time. 

  • To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. 

  • To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. 

noun
  • An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler. 

  • A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. 

  • An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance. 

  • Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. 

  • A definite period (of work or other activity). 

  • A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk. 

  • The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell. 

  • A period of rest; time off. 

  • A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc. 

  • A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. 

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