prattle vs cackle

prattle and cackle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prattle	Yes	No	Yes	No
cackle	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cackle is a hypernym of prattle; that is, cackle is a word with a broader meaning than prattle:

Other hypernyms of prattle include chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak.

prattle (noun)	cackle (noun)
idle or foolish and irrelevant talk	a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
	noisy talk
	the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

prattle (verb)	cackle (verb)
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly	emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
	squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
	talk or utter in a cackling manner
	make a noise characteristic of a goose