deceiver vs betrayer

betrayer vs deceiver

deceiver and betrayer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
betrayer	Yes	No	No	No

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
betrayer: a person who says one thing and does another

Other hyponyms of deceiver include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, 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, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

deceiver (noun)	betrayer (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who says one thing and does another
	one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority

Difference between deceiver and betrayer

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