pratfall vs mistake

pratfall and mistake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pratfall	Yes	No	No	No
mistake	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, mistake is a hypernym of pratfall; that is, mistake is a word with a broader meaning than pratfall:

pratfall: an embarrassing mistake
mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

Other hypernyms of pratfall include error, fault.

pratfall (noun)	mistake (noun)
an embarrassing mistake	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
a fall onto your buttocks	an understanding of something that is not correct
	part of a statement that is not correct

pratfall (verb)	mistake (verb)
	to make a mistake or be incorrect
	identify incorrectly