rumour vs tattle

rumour

verb
  • Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor. 

noun
  • Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor 

tattle

verb
  • To chatter; to gossip. 

  • Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. 

noun
  • A tattletale. 

  • Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person. 

  • Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip. 

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