confectionery vs sweets

confectionery

noun
  • Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively. 

  • A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop. 

  • The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner. 

sweets

noun
  • Confectionery, candy. 

  • drugs, amphetamine 

  • A term of endearment; sweetheart. 

  • flowers, sweet-scented. 

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