pfannkuchen vs battercake

pfannkuchen and battercake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pfannkuchen	Yes	No	No	No
battercake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, battercake is a hypernym of pfannkuchen; that is, battercake is a word with a broader meaning than pfannkuchen:

pfannkuchen: puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce
battercake: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Other hypernyms of pfannkuchen include flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake.

pfannkuchen (noun)	battercake (noun)
puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce	a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle