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Definitions: Wangle |
WangleNoun1. An instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery. Verb1. Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods. 2. Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: WangleSynonyms: wangling (n), cook (v), fake (v), falsify (v), finagle (v), fudge (v), manage (v), manipulate (v), misrepresent (v). (additional references) |
| "Wangle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Wangle" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wangle": wangle leave ♦ wangle out of ♦ wangle smb. into doing smth. ♦ wangle smth. out of smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "wangle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përlaj (bag, carry away, collar, devour, filch, mulct, pick, plunder, poach, pocket, purloin, put away, strip), marr me hile, hile (chicane, deception, fraud, overreach, ruse, subterfuge, trick), falsifikoj (adulterate, counterfeit, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge), dredhi (art, artifice, cop out, dodge, duplicity, finesse, gimmick, guile, machination, overreach, pass, ploy, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wile, wiliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نال بالحيلة, قنع شخصا بكذا, تلاعب (cook, doctor, juggle, jugglery, manipulate, manipulation, monkey with, play, rig, tamper), إحتال (cheat, do, finesse, gull, gyp, pluck, trick, victimize, work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нареждам се ловко, подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shift, shuffle, sophisticate, tergiversate, twist, whiffle), изпросвам (beg, scrounge, sue out), издрънквам (babble, plump, scrounge, wheedle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "骗 (Coax, Coaxed, Coaxing, wangling, Wheedle, Wheedled, Wheedling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zařídit (arrange, equip, fit out, fix, fix up, furnish, get up, manage, organize, see to, settle), trik (dodge, dor, foist, gag, gimmick, hocus pocus, racket, subterfuge, trick), podfuk (con, fiddle, hoax), podat zkreslenì, přikrášlit (embellish), švindl (con, fiddle, humbug, monkey business). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لرزاندن (Jar, Tremble), تلولوخوردن , به حیله متوسل شدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se débrouiller pour avoir, resquiller, combine, carotter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verschaffen (earn, furnish, provide, supply), schiebung (connivance, distortion, fiddle, rigging, shady deals, shear strain, slip, string pulling, wangling), schieben (creep, push, push across, push along, push out, push over, put, shove, shuffle, shunt, slide, sliding, slip, surge, thrust, to shuffle, traffic in, trundle, wheel), organisieren (fix, get hold of, get up, incorporate, Mount, organize, scrape through, scrape up), mauschelei (fiddle, graft), fingern (fiddle, fingers, fumble), deichseln, biegen (bend, bending, bow, camber, curtsy, curve, flex, flexion, flexure, inflect, stoop, to bend, to curve, to flex, to inflect, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιτυγχάνω με πλάγια μέσα, επιτυγχάνω διά πλάγιων μέσων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתחבל (circumvent, contrive), ל"שי' בערמ", תחבל ות (cunning, inventiveness, tactics, wiliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | valaminek a megszerzése ügyességgel, manipulál (manipulate, to juggle, to manipulate), kiügyeskedik (to juggle, to juggle sg out of sy, to wangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | procurarsi con l'inganno, procacciarsi, imbroglio (brail, buntline, cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, fraud, hanky panky, hole-and-corner dealings, imbroglio, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, underhand dealings, victimisation, victimization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | せざる'得ない (cannot avoid doing, has to do, hasty, impatient, instead of, is compelled to do, to cheat someone out of, to wangle, without). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せしめる (to cheat someone out of, to wangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo branglash er (wangle accounts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | angleway mistificar (bamboozle, flimsy, green beans, gull, hoax, hob, hocus, hod, humbug, mystify, spoof, trick), forjar (coin, contrive, cook up, fabrication, feign, forge, fudge, invention, manipulate, manufacture, mint), falsificar (adulterate, bast, counterfeit, doctor, dope, dosimeter, fake, falsify, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulation, pirate, tamper, to doctor, vitiate), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsity, finger, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, Fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have nothing to do, hocus, hocus pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, misleading, mock turtle soup, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wile), dar um jeito. (various references) trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick), intervenţie (application, honor, honour, intercession, interference, interposition, intervening, intervention). (various references) ухитриться получить, уловка (artifice, circumvention, come off, dodge, double cross, expedient, gimmick, put off, ruse, shift, shuffle, stealth, stratagem, strategem), нечестная сделка. (various references) navoditi (aim, cite, induce), izvući (abstract, bring out, come up, derive, draw out, extract, get out, tug), izmamiti (elicit, entice, scrounge, tap, wheedle, winkle out), falsifikovati (counterfeit, fake, falsify, forge). (various references) truco (dodge, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gag, gimmick, Hickey, hoax, knack, trick, wheeze, wrinkle), trampa (booby trap, catch, cheat, cheating, deadfall, debt, decoy duck, flapper, graft, hatch, hocus pocus, impurity trap, logic bomb, mantrap, pit, pitfall, plant, snare, steel trap, time bomb, trap, trapdoor, trapping center, trapping centre, trick, trickery, try on), manipular (doctor, fiddle, handle, manage, maneuver, manipulate, manoeuvre), mamarse, conseguir con artimañas, chanchullo (fiddle, trickery), amañar (do skilfully, do skillfully, fix, rig), agenciarse (fiddle). (various references) fiffla med (doctor, fix). (various references) vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle out of), sızdırma (extraction, leaking out), kitabına uydurmak, hileyle koparma, hileye başvurmak, hile karıştırma, hile ile yapmak, dolaylı yoldan sağlamak, caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, recant, retract, swallow, swerve, wangle out of). (various references) роздобути (organize), хитрощами вивудити, крутитися (circle, climb, flail, jib, pivot, reel, slue, spin), викрутас, вивертатися (dodge, shift), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, evasion, expedient, put off, quirk, shift, shuffle), випросити, одержання по знайомству, звиватися (meander, serpentine, twine, wander, wiggle, wriggle, wring), підтасовувати (garble, manipulate). (various references) thủ đoạn (expedient, expediential, resource), mánh khoé (astute, craft, fetch, finesse, trick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wangle": wangled, wangler, wanglers, wangles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wangle": twangle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wangle": twangled, twangler, twanglers, twangles. (additional references) | |
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"Wangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hwange, Nangle, wagler, wandle, wange, wangel, wangler, Wendle, wenge, widgle, wongle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wangle" (pronounced wa"nggul) |
| 5 | -a" ng g u l | angle, bangle, dangle, disentangle, entangle, jangle, mangle, Spangle, strangle, tangle, untangle, wrangle. |
| 4 | -ng g u l | antifungal, commingle, Dingle, fungal, Ingle, intermingle, jingle, jungle, Mangel, mingle, mongol, rectangle, shingle, single, swingle, tingle, triangle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, bagel, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, conjugal, eagle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, jiggle, juggle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, milligal, mogul, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, regal, smuggle, snuggle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, struggle, toggle, wiggle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-n-w" | |
-1 letter: angel, angle, glean. | |
-2 letters: anew, egal, elan, gaen, gale, gane, glen, gnaw, lane, lang, lawn, lean, wage, wale, wane, weal, wean. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, ane, awe, awl, awn, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, lag, law, lea, leg, nae, nag, naw, new, wae, wag, wan, wen. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, al, an, aw, el, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-n-w" | |
+1 letter: gunwale, twangle, wangled, wangler, wangles, wrangle. | |
+2 letters: gnawable, gunwales, lacewing, twangled, twangler, twangles, wanglers, weakling, weanling, wrangled, wrangler, wrangles. | |
+3 letters: alpenglow, angleworm, bewailing, clearwing, declawing, lacewings, lawyering, twanglers, weaklings, weanlings, wearingly, weaseling, wineglass, wranglers. | |
+4 letters: alpenglows, angleworms, becrawling, clearwings, lawyerings, lengthways, loungewear, newfangled, wavelength, waveringly, weaselling. | |
+5 letters: acknowledge, battlewagon, cakewalking, clergywoman, farewelling, firewalling, gentlewoman, lawbreaking, lowercasing, nightwalker, racewalking, rewardingly, wavelengths, wholesaling, wineglasses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 6E 67 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. --. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a n g l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 006E 0067 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576780737871 |
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