offspring vs effect

offspring and effect both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offspring	Yes	No	No	No
effect	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, effect is a hypernym of offspring; that is, effect is a word with a broader meaning than offspring:

Other hypernyms of offspring include consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot.

offspring (noun)	effect (noun)
any immature animal	an outward appearance
something that comes into existence as a result	(of a law) having legal validity
the immediate descendants of a person	an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
	the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
	a symptom caused by an illness or a drug

offspring (verb)	effect (verb)
	produce
	act so as to bring into existence