finagling
noun, verb
finagling is a noun meaning “The act of cheating or swindling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-A-G-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of finagling is finaglings.
What does finagling mean?
noun
- 1
The act of cheating or swindling.
No amount of finagling can get this law to pass the "undue burden" test.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of finagle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of finagling
- finaglings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is finagling?
Finagling appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).