A Word Ladder

A word ladder involves changing one letter at a time and anagramming the result. For example, if you wanted to change the word ‘SINGER’ to ‘PRISON’, an answer would be: SINGER -(change the E to a P and anagram the result) = SPRING- (change the G to an O and anagram the result) = PRISON. What is the least number of steps that you can turn the word ‘AUTUMN’ into ‘LEAVES’ via a word ladder and what are the interim words that you used?

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Clue: In one of the 5 step solutions, one of the interim words is ‘AMULET’.

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Answer: 5 steps.

AUTUMN (change the N to an L)=

MUTUAL (change the U to an E)=

AMULET (change the M to an S)=

SALUTE (change the T to a V)=

VALUES (change the U to an E)=

LEAVES

There are other valid answers.