• IPA: /waɪl/

wile (plural wiles)

1. (usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

   He was seduced by her wiles.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     to frustrate all our plots and wiles

• beguilement
• allurement

• guile

• French: ruse, leurre
• German: Schlich
• Russian: уло́вка

wile (wiles, present participle wiling; past and past participle wiled)

1. To entice or lure
2. Archaic form of while#English|while (“to pass the time”)

   Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

1. Surname
2. (rare) A male given name.

• Wiles