ill-fated vs unlucky

ill-fated

adj

  • unlucky; doomed. 

unlucky

adj

  • Having ill luck. 

  • Inauspicious. 

  • Bringing ill luck. 

  • Unfortunate, marked by misfortune. 

How often have the words ill-fated and unlucky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )