miss vs win

miss

verb
  • To be wanting; to lack something that should be present. 

  • To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook. 

  • To fail to attend. 

  • To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.). 

  • To fail to score (a goal). 

  • To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable. 

  • To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret. 

  • To fail to help the hand of a player. 

  • To avoid; to escape. 

  • To fail to achieve or attain. 

  • To fail to understand; 

  • To fail to hit. 

noun
  • A failure to obtain or accomplish. 

  • The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded. 

  • A failure to hit. 

  • A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. 

  • In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. 

  • An unmarried woman; a girl. 

  • An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give) 

  • A kept woman; a mistress. 

win

verb
  • To obtain (something desired). 

  • To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over). 

  • To defeat or surpass someone or something. 

  • To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). 

  • To achieve victory. 

  • To have power, coercion or control. 

  • To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). 

  • To cause a victory for someone. 

  • To extract (ore, coal, etc.). 

  • To dry by exposure to the wind. 

  • To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest. 

noun
  • A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement. 

  • An individual victory. 

  • Pleasure; joy; delight. 

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