Word ladder answers for November 7, 2026
The daily ladder for Saturday, November 7, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was END to TREND, solvable in 2 steps, and the longest was STRING to BOASTING, 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: OUT to WHIT
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- O becomes H
- U becomes I
- add W
Words in this ladder
- OUT noun
- (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
- HUT noun
- temporary military shelter
- HIT noun
- (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
- WHIT noun
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Puzzle 2: END to TREND
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- add T
- add R
Words in this ladder
- END noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- TEND verb
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- TREND noun
- a general direction in which something tends to move
Puzzle 3: WICKS to AUNTS
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- C becomes N
- W becomes P
- K becomes T
- I becomes U
- P becomes A
Words in this ladder
- WICKS noun
- any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
- WINKS noun
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- PINKS noun
- a light shade of red
- PINTS noun
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
- PUNTS noun
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- AUNTS noun
- the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
Puzzle 4: PREP to BLOW
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- E becomes O
- R becomes L
- P becomes W
- P becomes B
Words in this ladder
- PREP noun
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
- PROP noun
- a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling
- PLOP noun
- the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash
- PLOW noun
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- BLOW noun
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
Puzzle 5: STRING to BOASTING
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- add A
- T becomes E
- R becomes T
- S becomes B
- E becomes O
- add S
Words in this ladder
- STRING noun
- a lightweight cord
- STARING verb
- look at with fixed eyes
- SEARING verb
- make very hot and dry
- SEATING noun
- an area that includes places where several people can sit
- BEATING noun
- the act of overcoming or outdoing
- BOATING noun
- water travel for pleasure
- BOASTING noun
- speaking of yourself in superlatives
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