chicanery vs deceit

chicanery and deceit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chicanery	Yes	No	No	No
deceit	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deceit is a hypernym of chicanery; that is, deceit is a word with a broader meaning than chicanery:

chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
deceit: the act of deceiving

Other hypernyms of chicanery include deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

chicanery (noun)	deceit (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	the act of deceiving
	the quality of being fraudulent
	a misleading falsehood