grifter vs trickster

grifter and trickster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grifter	Yes	No	No	No
trickster	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trickster is a hypernym of grifter; that is, trickster is a word with a broader meaning than grifter:

Other hypernyms of grifter include beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker.

grifter (noun)	trickster (noun)
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud	someone who plays practical jokes on others
	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts