tale vs walkthrough

tale

noun
  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 

  • The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. 

  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. 

  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. 

verb
  • To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. 

walkthrough

noun
  • A theatrical or film rehearsal in which the actors move around the stage or set but are not in costume. 

  • A playthrough that details the steps involved in winning the game. 

  • A financial audit that traces a sample transaction through the system to ensure that it is processed and reported correctly. 

  • The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along the way. 

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