cheater vs misleader

misleader vs cheater

cheater and misleader both are nouns.

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

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

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
misleader: someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

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, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	misleader (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

Difference between cheater and misleader

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