humbug vs wile

humbug and wile both are nouns.

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

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

humbug: 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 humbug include chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery.

humbug (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)
pretentious or silly talk or writing
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive

humbug (verb)	wile (verb)
trick or deceive