misery vs regret

misery

noun
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • poverty. 

  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

regret

noun
  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

verb
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

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