unknown vs untold

unknown

adj
  • Not known; unidentified; not well known. 

noun
  • A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found. 

  • A person of no identity; a nonentity 

  • Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information. 

untold

adj
  • Not told; not related; not revealed; secret. 

  • Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible. 

  • Not numbered or counted. 

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