percher vs actor

percher and actor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
percher	Yes	No	No	No
actor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actor is a hypernym of percher; that is, actor is a word with a broader meaning than percher:

Other hypernyms of percher include doer, worker.

percher (noun)	actor (noun)
a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists	a theatrical performer
a person situated on a perch	a person who acts and gets things done