finagler

1. 1.

   a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods

   Synonymswangler

   Broaderdeceiver

Other forms of finagler

plural

finaglers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about finagler

What does finagler mean?

finagler means "a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods".

How many syllables are in finagler?

finagler has 3 syllables: fi-na-gler. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /fəˈneɪɡlɚ/.

What is another word for finagler?

Close synonyms include wangler. 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 finagler a common word?

finagler 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.