deceiver vs decoy

decoy vs deceiver

deceiver and decoy both are nouns.

deceiver is not a verb while decoy is a verb.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
decoy: a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)

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

deceiver (noun)	decoy (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
	a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)

deceiver (verb)	decoy (verb)
	lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

Difference between deceiver and decoy

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