rye vs whisky

rye and whisky both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rye	Yes	No	No	No
whisky	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, whisky is a hypernym of rye; that is, whisky is a word with a broader meaning than rye:

Other hypernyms of rye include whiskey.

rye (noun)	whisky (noun)
whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt	a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
the seed of the cereal grass