wile vs hoax

wile and hoax both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of wile include dupery, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on, jugglery.

wile (noun)	hoax (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

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