deceiver vs misleader

misleader vs deceiver

deceiver and misleader both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
misleader: someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

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

deceiver (noun)	misleader (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

Difference between deceiver and misleader

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