hotchpotch vs assortment

hotchpotch and assortment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hotchpotch	Yes	No	No	No
assortment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assortment is a hypernym of hotchpotch; that is, assortment is a word with a broader meaning than hotchpotch:

Other hypernyms of hotchpotch include miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety.

hotchpotch (noun)	assortment (noun)
a stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables	the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
a motley assortment of things	a collection containing a variety of sorts of things