fraud vs cheat

fraud and cheat both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, fraud and cheat are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of fraud include rig, swindle.

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

Other hypernyms of fraud include beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster.

fraud (noun)	cheat (noun)
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person	a deception for profit to yourself
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
a person who makes deceitful pretenses	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

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