Word.ws English Dictionary

finangle

UK/fɪˈnæŋ.ɡəl/

finangle is the alternative form of finagle.

Meaning of finagle

Verb

finagle (third-person singular simple present finagles, present participle finagling, simple past and past participle finagled)

  1. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
    • finagle a day off work
    Synonyms:
    fainaigue, wangle
  2. (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
    • finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
    Synonyms:
    fainaigue, wangle, game
  3. (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
    • shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

Forms of finangle

third-person singular presentfinangles
present participlefinangling
past participlefinangled
pastfinangled

Words that rhyme with finangle

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about finangle

What is finangle the alternative form of?
Finangle is the alternative form of finagle.
How do you pronounce finangle?
Finangle is pronounced /fɪˈnæŋ.ɡəl/ (UK).

Words near finangle in the dictionary

  1. financings
  2. financist
  3. financists
  4. financière
  5. financy
  6. finangle
  7. finangled
  8. finangles
  9. finangling
  10. Finans
  11. finanscape

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: finangle (page history and authors); finagle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “finangle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/finangle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.