muff vs pratfall

muff and pratfall both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
muff	Yes	No	Yes	No
pratfall	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pratfall is a hypernym of muff; that is, pratfall is a word with a broader meaning than muff:

Other hypernyms of muff include bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup.

muff (noun)	pratfall (noun)
(sports) dropping the ball	an embarrassing mistake
a warm tubular covering for the hands	a fall onto your buttocks

muff (verb)	pratfall (verb)
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
fail to catch, as of a ball