FIND YOUR WAY WITH WORDS
Word Ladder Solver
A little help connecting the dots. Enter two four-letter words and we’ll find a shortest ladder between them. FEET is a pretty good place to start.
Try a little example:
How the word ladder solver finds a route.
Our word ladder solver explores valid one-letter substitutions using breadth-first search. That means the first path it finds uses the fewest possible moves in our dictionary. There may be other equally short paths.
Which words does the solver accept?
We use a curated English four-letter word list, not every word in every dictionary. A word accepted by another game may not be available here. No proper names, punctuation, or letter rearrangements. The solver and the game share the same dictionary.