trickster vs betrayer

betrayer vs trickster

trickster and betrayer both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
betrayer: a person who says one thing and does another

Other hyponyms of trickster include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	betrayer (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who says one thing and does another
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

Difference between trickster and betrayer

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