pettifoggery vs words

pettifoggery and words both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pettifoggery	Yes	No	No	No
words	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, words is a hypernym of pettifoggery; that is, words is a word with a broader meaning than pettifoggery:

Other hypernyms of pettifoggery include dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle.

pettifoggery (noun)	words (noun)
a quarrel about petty points	words making up the dialogue of a play
	an angry dispute
	the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
	the words that are spoken
	language that is spoken or written