Word ladder answers for July 27, 2026
The daily ladder for Monday, July 27, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was METE to HERE, solvable in 2 steps, and the longest was RIPS to STRATUS, which needs at least 6. On MODS to BITS, players averaged 3.7 steps against a shortest path of 3.
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Puzzle 1: MODS to BITS
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- D becomes T
- M becomes B
- O becomes I
Words in this ladder
- MODS noun
- a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters
- MOTS noun
- a clever remark
- BOTS noun
- botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
- BITS noun
- a small piece or quantity of something
Puzzle 2: METE to HERE
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- T becomes R
- M becomes H
Words in this ladder
- METE noun
- a line that indicates a boundary
- MERE noun
- a small pond of standing water
- HERE noun
- the present location; this place
Puzzle 3: CONE to MATCH
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- O becomes A
- C becomes M
- N becomes T
- E becomes H
- add C
Words in this ladder
- CONE noun
- any cone-shaped artifact
- CANE noun
- a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- MANE noun
- long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- MATE noun
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- MATH noun
- a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
- MATCH noun
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
Puzzle 4: CRAWLS to BRANDS
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- C becomes B
- W becomes I
- L becomes D
- I becomes N
Words in this ladder
- CRAWLS noun
- a very slow movement
- BRAWLS noun
- an uproarious party
- BRAILS noun
- a small net used to draw fish into a boat
- BRAIDS noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- BRANDS noun
- a name given to a product or service
Puzzle 5: RIPS to STRATUS
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- I becomes A
- P becomes T
- R becomes T
- add U
- add S
- add R
Words in this ladder
- RIPS noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- RAPS noun
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- RATS noun
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- TATS noun
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- TATUS noun
- about three feet long exclusive of tail
- STATUS noun
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- STRATUS noun
- a large dark low cloud
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