cackle vs prate

cackle and prate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cackle	Yes	No	Yes	No
prate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, prate is a hyponym of cackle; that is, prate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cackle:

Other hyponyms of cackle include blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle.

cackle (noun)	prate (noun)
a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle	idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
noisy talk
the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

cackle (verb)	prate (verb)
emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing	speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
talk or utter in a cackling manner
make a noise characteristic of a goose