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Antonymic Laddergrams (Posted on 2011-06-08)

Starting from a genuine English word, our objective is to reach a word that has the exact opposite meaning (antonym) and contains the same number of letters as the original word, following precisely the same rules as Laddergrams. All the words in the intermediate steps must be proper English words (meaning no slangs or abbreviations).

What N-letter English word(s) generate its/their antonym(s) in a minimum number of steps, whenever N=4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Submitted by K Sengupta

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

N=4
Warm can be altered to cool in five transitions as follows.
warm-worm-word-wood-wool-cool
love --> hate can be changed in 3 step
love --> lave --> have --> hate love --> hove --> have --> hate love --> lave --> late --> hate
FAIR can be transformed into FOUL Zin 3 steps.
FAIR ==>FAIL.==>F0IL==>FOUL

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
Fair is foul == IN THREE STEPS	Ady TZIDON	2011-06-09 06:18:56
re: 4 letters, three steps, three different ways	Ady TZIDON	2011-06-08 17:34:45
Shortest chains	broll	2011-06-08 13:50:49
4 letters, three steps, three different ways	Steve Herman	2011-06-08 13:48:51
re: No Subject -- improved antonym	Charlie	2011-06-08 13:36:47
No Subject	Ady TZIDON	2011-06-08 12:17:19

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