say vs would

say

verb
  • Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis. 

  • To tell, either verbally or in writing. 

  • To indicate in a written form. 

  • To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact. 

  • To recite. 

  • To pronounce. 

  • To try; to assay. 

  • To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker. 

  • To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply. 

adv
  • Pick a color you think they'd like, say, peach. 

  • For example; let us assume. 

noun
  • Tried quality; temper; proof. 

  • A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision. 

  • Essay; trial; attempt. 

  • Trial by sample; assay; specimen. 

  • A strainer for milk. 

intj
  • Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion 

would

verb
  • Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action. 

  • Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another. 

  • Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. 

  • Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. 

  • Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). 

  • Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption. 

  • Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? 

  • Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. 

  • Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc. 

  • Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. 

noun
  • Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. 

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