citation form vs word form

citation form and word form both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
citation form	Yes	No	No	No
word form	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, word form is a hypernym of citation form; that is, word form is a word with a broader meaning than citation form:

citation form: the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
word form: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

Other hypernyms of citation form include descriptor, form, signifier.

citation form (noun)	word form (noun)
the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary	the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something