pain vs problem

pain

noun
  • Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. 

  • An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. 

  • The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress 

  • An annoying person or thing. 

verb
  • To feel pain; to hurt. 

  • To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. 

  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. 

problem

noun
  • A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with. 

  • A puzzling circumstance. 

  • A set of moves required to complete a climb. 

  • A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise. 

  • Objection. 

  • Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand. 

adj
  • Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome. 

  • Difficult to train or guide; unruly. 

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