rapist vs felon

rapist and felon both are nouns.

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

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

rapist: someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of rapist include aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

rapist (noun)	felon (noun)
someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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