FIND YOUR WAY WITH WORDS
Word Ladder Solver
Enter two four-letter English words to find a shortest word ladder. Each step changes one letter; every word must be in our curated dictionary.
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.