Word ladder answers for March 15, 2026
The daily ladder for Sunday, March 15, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was TILT to LINT, solvable in 2 steps, and the longest was NEVA to MOHO, which needs at least 7.
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Puzzle 1: TALLS to SAVES
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- L becomes E
- T becomes S
- L becomes V
Words in this ladder
- TALLS noun
- a garment size for a tall person
- TALES noun
- a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- SALES noun
- income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
- SAVES noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
Puzzle 2: TILT to LINT
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- L becomes N
- T becomes L
Words in this ladder
- TILT noun
- a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- TINT noun
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- LINT noun
- fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
Puzzle 3: MUSK to SHILL
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- M becomes H
- S becomes L
- K becomes L
- U becomes I
- add S
Words in this ladder
- MUSK noun
- an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative
- HUSK noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- HULK noun
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- HULL noun
- dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
- HILL noun
- a local and well-defined elevation of the land
- SHILL noun
- a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
Puzzle 4: BAUDS to CRORES
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- U becomes R
- D becomes E
- B becomes C
- A becomes O
- add R
Words in this ladder
- BAUDS noun
- (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems
- BARDS noun
- a lyric poet
- BARES verb
- lay bare
- CARES noun
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- CORES noun
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- CRORES noun
- the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million
Puzzle 5: NEVA to MOHO
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- E becomes O
- A becomes S
- V becomes W
- N becomes M
- W becomes N
- S becomes O
- N becomes H
Words in this ladder
- NEVA noun
- a river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland
- NOVA noun
- a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
- NOVS noun
- the month following October and preceding December
- NOWS noun
- the momentary present
- MOWS noun
- a loft in a barn where hay is stored
- MONS noun
- a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women
- MONO noun
- an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
- MOHO noun
- the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle
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