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TAIL → POOP in 4 moves
This is a shortest route in this site's complete dictionary. Each move replaces exactly one letter. More than one route may have the same length.
The full answer path
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- STARTTAILStarting word
- MOVE 1TOILLetter 2: A → O
- MOVE 2TOOLLetter 3: I → O
- MOVE 3POOLLetter 1: T → P
- MOVE 4POOPLetter 4: L → P · Goal reached
What changes at each step?
- TAIL → TOIL: change letter 2 from A to O; the other three positions stay the same.
- TOIL → TOOL: change letter 3 from I to O; the other three positions stay the same.
- TOOL → POOL: change letter 1 from T to P; the other three positions stay the same.
- POOL → POOP: change letter 4 from L to P; the other three positions stay the same.
The solver searches backward from POOP across every legal one-letter connection. The resulting distance from TAIL is 4, so no shorter route exists within this word list.
Every word in this route is also in our editorial everyday-word selection.
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Puzzle date: Oct 28, 2026 (UTC). Answer page first published . Updated . The date of the puzzle is separate from the date this archive page was written.