pfannkuchen vs hotcake

pfannkuchen and hotcake both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hotcake is a hypernym of pfannkuchen; that is, hotcake 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
hotcake: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

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

pfannkuchen (noun)	hotcake (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