chicanery vs hoax

chicanery and hoax both are nouns.

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

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

chicanery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
hoax: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Other hyponyms of chicanery include dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on, jugglery.

chicanery (noun)	hoax (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

chicanery (verb)	hoax (verb)
	subject to a playful hoax or joke