wangle

1. 1.

   an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery

   Synonymswangling

   Broadercontrivance

Other forms of wangle

plural

wangles·

past tense

wangled·

present participle

wangling·

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 wangle

What does wangle mean?

wangle means "achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wangle?

wangle has 2 syllables: wan-gle. The stress falls on "wan". In IPA it is /ˈwæŋɡəl/.

What is another word for wangle?

Close synonyms include finagle, manage, fudge, manipulate, fake. 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 wangle a common word?

wangle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.