savant vs scholar

savant and scholar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
savant	Yes	No	No	No
scholar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholar is a hypernym of savant; that is, scholar is a word with a broader meaning than savant:

savant: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of savant include bookman, scholarly person.

savant (noun)	scholar (noun)
someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
	a student who holds a scholarship