confuse vs understand

confuse

verb
  • 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 mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder. 

  • To be confused. 

understand

verb
  • To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge. 

  • To stand underneath, to support. 

  • To grasp a concept fully in one's mind, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of. 

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