con vs cheat

con and cheat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
con	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cheat is a hypernym of con; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than con:

con: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
cheat: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of con include fraud, rig, swindle.

As verbs, cheat is a hypernym of con; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than con:

Other hypernyms of con include chisel, rip off.

con (noun)	cheat (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	a deception for profit to yourself
an argument opposed to a proposal	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
	weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

con (verb)	cheat (verb)
commit to memory; learn by heart	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
deprive of by deceit	deprive somebody of something by deceit
	engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
	be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

con (adverb)	cheat (adverb)
in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.