frontispiece vs facade

frontispiece and facade both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
frontispiece	Yes	No	No	No
facade	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, facade is a hypernym of frontispiece; that is, facade is a word with a broader meaning than frontispiece:

Other hypernyms of frontispiece include frontage, frontal.

frontispiece (noun)	facade (noun)
front illustration facing the title page of a book	the face or front of a building
an ornamental facade	a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant