confuse vs tousle

confuse

verb
  • To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder. 

  • to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand 

  • To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another). 

  • To be confused. 

tousle

verb
  • To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss. 

noun
  • The action of ruffling or setting in disorder. 

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