Yes, cheats is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Deprive somebody of something by deceit

2. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit

3. Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

4. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

Noun

1. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

2. Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

3. Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

4. The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

5. A deception for profit to yourself