cockup vs mistake

cockup and mistake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cockup	Yes	No	No	No
mistake	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, mistake is a hypernym of cockup; that is, mistake is a word with a broader meaning than cockup:

cockup: something badly botched or muddled
mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

Other hypernyms of cockup include error, fault.

cockup (noun)	mistake (noun)
something badly botched or muddled	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
	an understanding of something that is not correct
	part of a statement that is not correct

cockup (verb)	mistake (verb)
	to make a mistake or be incorrect
	identify incorrectly