cheater vs faker

faker vs cheater

cheater and faker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheater	Yes	No	No	No
faker	Yes	No	No	No

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

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
faker: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Other hyponyms of cheater include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	faker (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Difference between cheater and faker

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