LADDERWORDS Reviewed
#22 · MONDAY 5 OCT 2026
BULLSJAILS
Par 4· Gentle 1/7· …
3 letters change · 2 in place·1 stepping stone at par

How climbers did

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Our route

Tap any rung for its meaning.

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1U → A
2stepping stone
3L → I
4F → J

The F is a stepping stone — borrowed at rung 2 to keep falls a real word, then given back at the summit. There may be several par routes — the census above shows which ones climbers actually took.

The words

Bulls

noun · plural

An adult male bovine animal.

From Old English 'bula' or Old Norse 'boli,' both meaning a male bovine. The word is common across Germanic languages. Its ultimate origin before Germanic is uncertain.

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Jails

noun · plural

A place where people are locked up as punishment.

From Old French 'jaole' or 'geole,' meaning a cage or prison, which came from Latin 'caveola,' a small cage. The spelling with a 'j' became standard in American English, while British English long preferred 'gaol.' Both spellings are pronounced the same way.

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Definitions give each word’s most common meaning — the full entries live at Wiktionary.