rung vs spoke

rung

noun
  • A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. 

  • A position in a hierarchy. 

  • A crosspiece between legs of a chair. 

adj
  • Of a pig: having a ring through the nose. 

verb
  • simple past tense of ring 

spoke

noun
  • A rung of a ladder. 

  • A projecting handle of a steering wheel. 

  • A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim. 

  • One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation. 

  • A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill. 

verb
  • simple past tense of speak 

  • To furnish (a wheel) with spokes. 

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