guile vs put-on

guile and put-on both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
guile	Yes	No	No	No
put-on	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, put-on is a hyponym of guile; that is, put-on is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than guile:

guile: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
put-on: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Other hyponyms of guile include dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery.

guile (noun)	put-on (noun)
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
the quality of being crafty	a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception	a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way