scandalmonger vs rumormonger

scandalmonger and rumormonger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scandalmonger	Yes	No	No	No
rumormonger	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rumormonger is a hypernym of scandalmonger; that is, rumormonger is a word with a broader meaning than scandalmonger:

scandalmonger: a person who spreads malicious gossip
rumormonger: a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

Other hypernyms of scandalmonger include gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger.

scandalmonger (noun)	rumormonger (noun)
a person who spreads malicious gossip	a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others