Word ladder The game was revived in Australia in the 1990s by The Canberra Times as "Stepword". The player is given a "start word" and an "end word". In order to win the game, the player must change the start word into the end word progressively, creating an existing word at each step. Each step consists of a single letter substitution. For example, the following are the seven shortest solutions to the word ladder puzzle between words "cold" and "warm", using words from Collins Scrabble Words. Often word ladder puzzles are created where the "end word" has some kind of relationship with
Most common words in English such as literary works, novels, academic journals, newspapers, magazines, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, blogs, chat logs, and emails. Another English corpus that has been used to study word frequency is the Brown Corpus, which was compiled by researchers at Brown University in the 1960s. The researchers published their analysis of the Brown Corpus in 1967. Their findings were similar, but not identical, to the findings of the OEC analysis. According to "The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists", the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up