stakes vs kitty

stakes and kitty both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stakes	Yes	No	No	No
kitty	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, kitty is a hyponym of stakes; that is, kitty is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stakes:

Other hyponyms of stakes include jackpot, pot, ante, pool.

stakes (noun)	kitty (noun)
the money risked on a gamble	informal terms referring to a domestic cat
	young domestic cat
	the combined stakes of the betters
	the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)