writer vs playwright

playwright vs writer

writer and playwright both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
writer	Yes	No	No	No
playwright	Yes	No	No	No

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

writer: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
playwright: someone who writes plays

Other hyponyms of writer include abstracter, abstractor, alliterator, authoress, biographer, coauthor, joint author, commentator, reviewer, compiler, contributor, cyberpunk, drafter, dramatist, essayist, litterateur, folk writer, framer, gagman, gagster, gagwriter, ghost, ghostwriter, Gothic romancer, hack, hack writer, literary hack, journalist, librettist, lyricist, lyrist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragrapher, poet, polemic, polemicist, polemist, poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier, scenarist, scriptwriter, space writer, speechwriter, tragedian, wordmonger, word-painter, wordsmith.

writer (noun)	playwright (noun)
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)	someone who writes plays
a person who is able to write and has written something

Difference between writer and playwright

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