counterfeit vs ringer

counterfeit

noun
  • One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 

  • A non-genuine article; a fake. 

adj
  • Inauthentic. 

  • False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. 

  • Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. 

verb
  • To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. 

  • Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board. 

ringer

noun
  • Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor. 

  • A stockman, a cowboy. 

  • A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse. 

  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer. 

  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer. 

  • A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle. 

  • An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve. 

  • A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team. 

  • A top performer. 

  • A ringer T-shirt. 

  • The champion shearer of a shearing shed. 

  • A crowbar. 

  • In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole. 

  • A look-alike. 

  • A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground. 

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