hoax vs wile

hoax and wile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hoax	Yes	No	Yes	No
wile	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wile is a hypernym of hoax; that is, wile is a word with a broader meaning than hoax:

hoax: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
wile: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Other hypernyms of hoax include chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery.

hoax (noun)	wile (noun)
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage	the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

hoax (verb)	wile (verb)
subject to a playful hoax or joke