wrest vs wry

wrest

verb
  • To pull or twist violently. 

  • To tune with a wrest, or key. 

  • To seize. 

  • To distort, to pervert, to twist. 

  • To obtain by pulling or violent force. 

noun
  • A key to tune a stringed instrument. 

  • A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. 

  • The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. 

wry

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

adj
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

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