span vs want

span

verb
  • To fetter, as a horse; to hobble. 

  • To extend through the distance between or across. 

  • To extend through (a time period). 

  • To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object. 

  • To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations. 

noun
  • The space of all linear combinations of something. 

  • A portion of something by length; a subsequence. 

  • A small space or a brief portion of time. 

  • The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports. 

  • The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps. 

  • wingspan of a plane or bird 

  • The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports. 

  • Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm. 

  • A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action. 

  • A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used. 

  • The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length. 

want

verb
  • To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. 

  • To desire (to experience desire); to wish. 

  • To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). 

  • To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). 

  • To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. 

  • To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. 

noun
  • A desire, wish, longing. 

  • Poverty. 

  • Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. 

  • A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. 

  • Lack, absence, deficiency. 

  • A mole (Talpa europea). 

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