puzzling vs strange

puzzling

adj
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing. 

noun
  • Time spent pondering something confusing. 

strange

adj
  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

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