One-Letter Changes
Richard Kostelanetz

     

Abject object.
Add and.
Affect effect.
Aim aid air.
Antic attic.
Appeal appear.
At it.
Attach attack.
Auspicious suspicious.
Bad bid bud bod bed.
Banish vanish.
Bare barf.
Bark dark.
Bashes bushes.
Bat bit.
Be me.
Bear near.
Beat best.
Beet beer.
Beg big bag bug bog.
Belief relief.
Bend band bond bind bund.
Best bust.
Best rest jest.
Bets bits.
Bid big.
Bilk silk milk.
Birth mirth.
Bit bet yet?
Better bitter butter batter.
Black block.
Blank black.
Blame flame.
Bleep sleep.
Blonder blinder blunder blender blander.
Blink blind.
Bloat float.
Blown brown.
Blue slue.
Blur blue.
Boar roar.
Boast roast coast.
Boat book.
Book nook.
Boor boar.
Boot book.
Boot foot.
Born bore.
Bout gout.
Bow wow.
Boy toy.
Break creak.
Breed bread.
Brain brawn.
Braise praise.
Bribe tribe.
Bright fright.
Brook crook.
Brothel brother.
Buffet buffer.
Bull bill boll bell ball.
Burgle gurgle.
Bum rum.
Buss boss.
Busy bust.
But cut rut nut.
Buys guys.
Bye bee.
Cable fable.
Came lame.
Camp came.
Canister banister.
Caps cops.
Cat sat.
Cave save.
Champ chump.
Changes charges.
Chance change.
Clasp class.
Cheap cheat.
Clean clear.
Clique claque.
Clips slips.
Chose close.
Cloud clout.
Clown crown.
Coal foal.
Collars dollars.
College collage.
Colt coon.
Comfort comport.
Cool coal.
Cool cook.
Come comb.
Come home.
Commence commerce.
Commend command.
Compliment complement.
Contest content.
Contrasts contracts.
Contest content context.
Convert concert.
Core bore.
Cost most.
Coy boy.
Crab crap.
Crap crop.
Crash clash.
Crash crush.
Crop drop.
Crotch crouch.
Crude prude.
Cruel gruel.
Cute cure.
Dead deed.
Deal dear dead.
Decide decade.
Defined refined.
Devoted, demoted.
Disk dish.
Distract district.
Do so.
Dog hog.
Dole done.
Done gone.
Don't, won’t.
Dual duel.
Dumb dump.
Dunk sunk.
Eats ears.
Engage enrage.
Erect elect.
Esoteric exoteric.
Expect expert.
Exorcise exercise.
Face fact.
Faction fiction.
Fail mail bail.
Fame came.
Fate gate.
Fart fare.
Fast fist.
Fawn pawn.
Feel fuel.
Fell well.
Felt melt.
Fender bender.
File film.
Finds funds.
Fish dish.
Flee flea.
Foam moan.
Fobs fibs.
Foist hoist.
Fob foe for fog.
Fixes foxes.
Flatter blatter.
Foot boot loot.
Fore gore.
Foul fowl.
Fucks ducks.
Funk junk.
Gathers fathers.
Get bet set let yet met?
Give five live jive.
Glass class.
Glean clean.
Glee flee.
Gloom bloom.
Goo coo.
Good food.
Going doing.
Gold golf.
Go do.
Good food.
Goose moose.
Grain groin.
Grand grant.
Gross cross.
Grow grew.
Grown groan.
Guess guest.
Had mad.
Hairy fairy.
Halt salt.
Hard hand.
Hare mare.
Haste waste.
Hate date.
Have, gave.
Have hate.
Hazy lazy.
Hear heat.
Hear year.
Heart heard.
Heed need.
Height weight.
Her hem.
Hire sire fire tire wire.
Hit hot hat.
Hoist moist.
Hone home hole.
How now?
Huge Hugo.
Hugs rugs.
Hunk honk.
Ill oil.
Ingenuous ingenious.
Injured insured.
Internal infernal.
Invent intent.
Invest invert invent.
Is in.
Jiggling juggling.
Joke yoke.
Jowl howl.
Just must.
Keep deep seep beep.
Kind king.
Lace mace.
Lap map.
Large barge.
Last list.
Lead read.
Lean loan.
Leaven heaven.
Ledge lodge.
Left heft.
Literary literacy.
Lust lest last list lost.
Like lime lice.
Lime limp.
Live life.
Load lead.
Loll roll.
Loam foam.
Lose lone love.
Look loot.
Loose noose.
Lore lord.
Lost last.
Loving living.
Luck fuck.
Lug log.
Lynch lunch.
Made mode.
Make cake.
Male make.
Mane cane.
Mash mush.
Massages messages.
Mature manure.
Major mayor.
Mean moan.
Merry berry.
Metal medal.
Milks miles.
Mime time.
Miss mass moss muss mess.
Moat boat.
Mod med mad mid mud.
Moo zoo.
Moor moon.
Moose mouse.
Moral mural.
Most must mist.
Move more.
Mull mall mill.
Mum mom.
Munch lunch.
Mute mate mete mite mote.
Mutt mitt.
Nay say.
New now.
Nick neck.
Noodle doodle poodle.
Not now.
Nurse purse.
Numb dumb.
Odd add.
One eon.
Other ether.
Overhearing overbearing.
Owe own owl.
Pack puck pick peck pock.
Paid pain.
Palm balm.
Pitted petted putted potted patted.
Pea sea.
Pet pen.
Peach leach.
Pass piss puss.
Peak peek.
Plan play.
Play slay.
Plump clump.
Pocket socket rocket.
Paints points.
Policy police.
Portage postage.
Pout pour.
Propositions prepositions.
Prevent present.
Price pride.
Print paint.
Prison poison.
Produces products.
Promise premise.
Protect protest.
Proto photo.
Put pat pet pot pit.
Put out.
Qualify quality.
Quick quack.
Rail rain.
Rain ruin.
Rambling gambling.
Rain vain pain.
Rape rope.
Reach beach.
Reach roach.
Read road.
Real read.
Ream roam.
Reap rear.
Rear roar.
Received deceived.
Reckon beckon.
Reed seed weed deed.
Receive deceive.
Refer defer.
Reflect reelect.
Relationship relationshit.
Relief belief.
Resort report.
Reside beside.
Retards regards.
Rich rice.
Rim rum.
Ring rung.
Roan moan.
Roil roll.
Roof goof.
Root soot.
Ropes dopes.
Rose nose.
Rough cough.
Round sound.
Row raw.
Rude ride.
Rupture rapture.
Ruse rise.
Sad dad nab lad.
Safe sage sake.
Sage saga.
Salt malt.
Same game.
Same sane.
Save gave.
Saves raves.
Say saw.
Score scope.
Seductive reductive.
See pee.
Seers seats.
Sell tell.
Send sand.
Send went.
Shape shale.
Share shake shame.
She sue.
Sheep sleep.
Shelf sheet.
Shift shirt.
Ship slip slop.
Shit snip.
Shock stock.
Shoot short.
Shoe shot.
Shop shoe.
Shore whore.
Short shirt.
Shot snot.
Shot shit.
Sift gift.
Silk milk.
Simple pimple.
Sin sun.
Sing ring.
Sing song.
Skip ship.
Slight blight.
Slim skim.
Snot snit.
Slow show.
Slow slew.
Slut slot slit.
Snot snit.
Snow shot.
Sold cold bold gold mold.
Some come.
Soon moon.
Sooth tooth.
Space spade.
Spoke smoke.
Stale stage.
Stave stove.
Stout shout.
Strive strike.
Stuck stick.
Suck muck.
Sucker fucker.
Suffers surfers.
Sunny bunny.
Surd turd.
Sure sore.
Sweet sweat.
Swan swam.
Sway away.
Swim swam swum.
Tall ball wall.
Taught caught.
Teach reach beach.
There, where?
Thick think.
Thinks thanks.
Thinks things.
Thread threat.
Threat throat.
Thus this.
Tickle tinkle.
Tiff riff.
Tilt silt.
To do so.
Took look book.
Toon town.
Toot loot.
Tough touch.
Tour tout.
Toxic tonic.
Trash crash.
Trick truck.
Trip trap.
Trough though.
True tree.
Try cry.
Type tape.
Want wait.
War was.
Warm worm.
Warning warming.
Wealth health.
Weaves leaves heaves.
Weeding wedding.
Want went.
When, whew.
Where whore?
Wherever whenever.
While white.
Whim wham.
Whose whore?
Why shy?
Wife rife life.
Wind mind.
Wise wish.
Wishes dishes.
Wish wash.
Woo too.
Word work.
World would.
Would wound.
Wow now.
Wroth wrath.
Wry spy.
Yawn lawn.
Yeast feast.
Yellow mellow fellow.
Your dour sour pour.
Yule mule.
Zaps maps caps.
Zealous jealous.
Zoom doom.

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