deceiver vs steerer

steerer vs deceiver

deceiver and steerer both are nouns.

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

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
steerer: 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, decoy, 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)	steerer (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
	the person who steers a ship

Difference between deceiver and steerer

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