twirl vs writhe

twirl

verb
  • To twist round. 

  • To pitch. 

  • To rotate rapidly. 

  • To perform a twirl. 

noun
  • A little twist of some substance; a swirl. 

  • A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. 

  • Any rotating movement; a spin. 

  • A prison guard. 

writhe

verb
  • To twist, wring (something). 

  • To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted. 

  • To extort. 

  • To contort (a part of the body). 

noun
  • A contortion. 

  • The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot 

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