Word ladder answers for October 7, 2026
The daily ladder for Wednesday, October 7, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was LOSE to WORD, solvable in 3 steps, and the longest was SHED to ABROAD, which needs at least 6. Players found LOSE to WORD the trickiest: they averaged 3.7 steps against a shortest path of 3.
Solutions are folded away until you open them, so you can have a go first. We show one shortest path per puzzle. Plenty of ladders have two or three paths of the same length, so if yours doesn't match and has the same step count, it's just as good.
Puzzle 1: LOSE to WORD
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- S becomes R
- E becomes D
- L becomes W
Words in this ladder
- LOSE verb
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- LORE noun
- knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
- LORD noun
- terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
- WORD noun
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
Puzzle 2: AMP to COME
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- add C
- A becomes O
- P becomes E
Words in this ladder
- AMP noun
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- CAMP noun
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- COMP noun
- an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
- COME noun
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Puzzle 3: SWOON to SHADE
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- O becomes R
- W becomes H
- N becomes E
- O becomes A
- R becomes D
Words in this ladder
- SWOON noun
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- SWORN verb
- utter obscenities or profanities
- SHORN adjective
- having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
- SHORE noun
- the land along the edge of a body of water
- SHARE noun
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- SHADE noun
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
Puzzle 4: STAB to CYAN
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- T becomes L
- B becomes P
- S becomes C
- P becomes N
- L becomes Y
Words in this ladder
- STAB noun
- a sudden sharp feeling
- SLAB noun
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
- SLAP noun
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- CLAP noun
- a sudden very loud noise
- CLAN noun
- group of people related by blood or marriage
- CYAN noun
- a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
Puzzle 5: SHED to ABROAD
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- H becomes E
- S becomes R
- add B
- E becomes A
- E becomes O
- add A
Words in this ladder
- SHED noun
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- SEED noun
- a small hard fruit
- REED noun
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- BREED noun
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- BREAD noun
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- BROAD noun
- slang term for a woman
- ABROAD adjective
- in a foreign country
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