wile vs humbug

wile and humbug both are nouns.

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

As nouns, humbug is a hyponym of wile; that is, humbug 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)
humbug: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

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

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

wile (verb)	humbug (verb)
	trick or deceive