plunk vs hitting

plunk and hitting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plunk	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
hitting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hitting is a hypernym of plunk; that is, hitting is a word with a broader meaning than plunk:

Other hypernyms of plunk include hit, striking.

plunk (noun)	hitting (noun)
(baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly	the act of contacting one thing with another
a hollow twanging sound

plunk (verb)	hitting (verb)
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
drop steeply
make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

plunk (adverb)	hitting (adverb)
with a short hollow thud