finagle

Questions about finagle

What does finagle mean?

finagle means "achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods".

How many syllables are in finagle?

finagle has 3 syllables: fin-a-gle. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfɪnəɡəl/.

What is another word for finagle?

Close synonyms include wangle, manage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is finagle a common word?

finagle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.