extortionist vs felon

extortionist and felon both are nouns.

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

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

extortionist: a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

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

extortionist (noun)	felon (noun)
a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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