Mmmmm. Hmmmm. Ummmm. Ammmm. Can you come up with a set of words that have only one letter changed but a completely different meaning?

What is a 9-letter word where you can remove one letter at a time
and still be left with a word?

Startling

L- Starting
T- Staring
A- String
R- Sting
T- Sing
G- Sin
S- In
N- I

Cote
coat
cost

Hot, hit, hat, hut, het

No.

So
Do
Go
Ho
To

Mate
Mete
Mite
Mote
Mute

I’m sure there are a lot of these.

Lake
Lame
Late
Lane
Lace
Cake
Bake
Take
Fake
Make
Rake
Sake
Wake
Kale

Puke
Pike
Poke
Puce
Puka
Nuke
Duke
Juke

Fart
Cart
Dart
Part
Tart
Farm
Fort
Fare
Fast
Fact

Bead
Beam
Bean
Beat
Bear
Read
Lead
Bode
Dame
Dale
Dane
Dare
Date
Daze
Head
Dead

^^^ Wow
Bow
Cow
Dow
Eow!!
How
Low
Mow
Now
Oow!
Pow
Row
Sow
Tow

Slow
Glow
Flow
Jello

Shut up. I’m hungry.

bag
beg
big
bog
bug

@WillWorkForChocolate Your selection sounds more like an orgy than a buffet : P

Tentacles
Testacles

Doh a deer, a female deer
Ray a drop of golden sun
Me a name I call myself
Far a long, long way to run
So a needle pulling thread
La a note to follow so
Tee a drink with jam & bread
And that will bring us back to Doh…Doh….Doh…Doh.

That probably wasn’t what you were looking for, but I really enjoyed my little bit self ;¬}

^^ It’s 5 o’clock somewhere : )

Extra points to anyone who can make one out of somebody’s avatar name.

TFI Friday!

Kardamam
Kerdemem
Kirdimim
Kordomom
Kurdumum

Okay, so that totally didn’t make any sense…

Soon it’ll be mother’s day here in england town, I must get a card-for-mom

ucme
acme

acme
acne

acne
acre

acre
toshabi

harple
harpie
(lol)

Been to seen

Here to hear

Look to book

The word demonstration has the word dermon in it. Erm.

Lick, lack, luck, lock.

Sick, sack, suck, sock

Cone
Done
Gone

and they don’t rhyme

deck, dick, dock, duck

taints
taunts

freshet
freshen

basal
bases

dowel
vowel

loved
loped

OK, my fellow Jellies here you go, literally : )
sorry if anyone is offended, but I just went with whatever I could see in the letters

janbb
banjo

bob
bop
boa
bog
boo
bow
box
boy

syz
yes

harple
chapel

ucme
come (don’t even say it!!!)
came (don’t say it here, either!!!)

Jude
Jade
Judo

KateTheGreat
TakeTheGreet

food
door
fool
good
hood
mood
wood
doom

deni
need
deny
Dane (a person from Denmark)

laureth
the rule (you bet she is!)
urethra (sorry, dearest)

cthulette
the cutlet (actually this might not count, because I didn’t change a letter, just re-arranged)

6rant6
6rent6
6rang6 (as in: the phone rang)
6trap6

Mama_Cakes
Mama_Bakes
Mama_Wakes
Mama_Fakes (I doubt that!)
Mama_Lakes
Mama_Rakes
Mama_Takes (only that which she deserves)

likipie
like pie
limo pie (maybe she’s got a driver)

Jillthetooth
Billthetooth (her male alter-ego, or make her pay up)
Fillthetooth (what they have to do if she gets a cavity)
Willthetooth (what her decendants get)
Millthetooth (if she decided to start a cereal company???)
Dillthetooth (if she started marketing pickles???)
Tillthetooth (if she started to plow the back forty???)

silky1
sulky1
silly1
kissy1 (sweet)

flo
fly
lot
lob
log
LOL!
lot
low
lox

lynch
lunch
bunch—bench wench winch pinch punch punce ounce
munch
mulch
gulch

pat
pet
pit
pot
put

@Kardamom Wow, that was pretty epic…:D

bigger, digger, tigger, wigger

Yo and no.

Scared and scarred.

I can’t believe I didn’t think of fuck and suck.

transposition works too:
marital and martial
another long-time editorial fave: public and pubic

astronomy and astrology are very different critters too