plaything vs artefact

plaything and artefact both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plaything	Yes	No	No	No
artefact	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artefact is a hypernym of plaything; that is, artefact is a word with a broader meaning than plaything:

Other hypernyms of plaything include artifact.

plaything (noun)	artefact (noun)
an artifact designed to be played with	a man-made object taken as a whole