scat vs jazz

scat and jazz both are nouns.

scat and jazz both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scat	Yes	No	Yes	No
jazz	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, jazz is a hypernym of scat; that is, jazz is a word with a broader meaning than scat:

scat: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
jazz: a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

Other hypernyms of scat include singing, vocalizing.

scat (noun)	jazz (noun)
singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument	a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
	a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
	empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

scat (verb)	jazz (verb)
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run	have sexual intercourse with
	play something in the style of jazz

Difference between scat and jazz

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