Word ladder answers for November 5, 2026
The daily ladder for Thursday, November 5, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was LIME to RICE, solvable in 2 steps, and the longest was SPAT to BLEED, which needs at least 6.
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: LIME to RICE
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- M becomes C
- L becomes R
Words in this ladder
- LIME noun
- a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
- LICE noun
- wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
- RICE noun
- grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
Puzzle 2: UP to CLUMP
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- add M
- add L
- add C
Words in this ladder
- UP verb
- raise
- UMP noun
- an official at a baseball game
- LUMP noun
- a compact mass
- CLUMP noun
- a grouping of a number of similar things
Puzzle 3: PRAM to SCOOP
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- A becomes O
- M becomes P
- P becomes C
- R becomes O
- add S
Words in this ladder
- PRAM noun
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- PROM noun
- a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- PROP noun
- a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
- CROP noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- COOP noun
- a farm building for housing poultry
- SCOOP noun
- the quantity a scoop will hold
Puzzle 4: GARNET to BARKER
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- T becomes R
- N becomes T
- G becomes B
- T becomes K
Words in this ladder
- GARNET noun
- any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
- GARNER noun
- a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
- GARTER noun
- a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)
- BARTER noun
- an equal exchange
- BARKER noun
- someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
Puzzle 5: SPAT to BLEED
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- P becomes E
- A becomes N
- T becomes D
- S becomes B
- add L
- N becomes E
Words in this ladder
- SPAT noun
- a quarrel about petty points
- SEAT noun
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- SENT noun
- 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
- SEND verb
- cause to go somewhere
- BEND noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- BLEND noun
- an occurrence of thorough mixing
- BLEED verb
- lose blood from one's body
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