accessary vs felon

accessary and felon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accessary	Yes	Yes	No	No
felon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, felon is a hypernym of accessary; that is, felon is a word with a broader meaning than accessary:

accessary: someone who helps another person commit a crime
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of accessary include criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

accessary (noun)	felon (noun)
someone who helps another person commit a crime	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
	a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail

accessary (adjective)	felon (adjective)
aiding and abetting in a crime