payer vs tenant

payer and tenant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
payer	Yes	No	No	No
tenant	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

payer: a person who pays money for something
tenant: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

Other hyponyms of payer include drawee, paymaster, taxpayer, renter, tither.

payer (noun)	tenant (noun)
a person who pays money for something	someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
	any occupant who dwells in a place
	a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

payer (verb)	tenant (verb)
	occupy as a tenant