jazz vs scat

jazz and scat both are nouns.

jazz and scat both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
jazz	Yes	No	Yes	No
scat	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, scat is a hyponym of jazz; that is, scat is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than jazz:

jazz: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
scat: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

Other hyponyms of jazz include scat singing, bebop, bop, boogie-woogie, boogie, cool jazz, funk, hot jazz, modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz, trad, jive, swing, swing music, jazz-rock, jazz fusion, sweet jazz.

jazz (noun)	scat (noun)
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles	singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

jazz (verb)	scat (verb)
have sexual intercourse with	flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
play something in the style of jazz

Difference between jazz and scat

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