plotter vs felon

plotter and felon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plotter	Yes	No	No	No
felon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, felon is a hypernym of plotter; that is, felon is a word with a broader meaning than plotter:

plotter: a member of a conspiracy
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of plotter include criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

plotter (noun)	felon (noun)
an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
a member of a conspiracy	a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
a clerk who marks data on a chart