leading tone vs musical note

leading tone and musical note both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
leading tone	Yes	No	No	No
musical note	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musical note is a hypernym of leading tone; that is, musical note is a word with a broader meaning than leading tone:

leading tone: (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale
musical note: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound

Other hypernyms of leading tone include note, tone.

leading tone (noun)	musical note (noun)
(music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale	a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound