A list of 24 words by sionnach.
- deadliness appears on just this list
- headlines appears on 1 other list
- grave appears on 45 other lists
- rave appears on 22 other lists
- grace appears on 97 other lists
- grape appears on 44 other lists
- graze appears on 14 other lists
- grate appears on 25 other lists
- gravy appears on 16 other lists
- bother appears on 12 other lists
- formication appears on 38 other lists
- fornication appears on 33 other lists
- momentum appears on 26 other lists
- omentum appears on 5 other lists
- mustard appears on 49 other lists
- bustard appears on 15 other lists
- custard appears on 20 other lists
- hirudine appears on 6 other lists
- hirundine appears on 14 other lists
- homophone appears on 19 other lists
- homophobe appears on 4 other lists
- batty appears on 21 other lists
- catty appears on 17 other lists
- fatty appears on 10 other lists
ruzuzu I like it, foxy. May 5, 2011
sionnach This glimpse into how my mind functioned "about 4 years ago" is terrifying to me now! May 5, 2011
uselessness brother? On second though, those words are synonyms.
So how about bather? Mar 14, 2007
oroboros botcher Mar 13, 2007
sionnach new starter word is bother Mar 13, 2007
oroboros grape
Mar 12, 2007
sionnach or grace, gravy, grate Mar 11, 2007
trivet graze - as opposed to a grave injury?
rave - instead of being gravely serious? Mar 11, 2007
uselessness Nothing wrong with insanity. :-)
How about grove? I like the contrast between the place of death and the place of life. Mar 10, 2007
sionnach Hmmm. Interesting. deadliness was what I had in mind, but headlines works just as well, if not better. I wasn't requiring antonyms, just that the two words be 'far apart' in meaning. This is obviously not a well-defined idea. Depending on your point of view, that makes things more interesting, by opening up the possibilities, or less so, because it might open up too many possibilities.
I'm going to add both headlines and deadliness. Let's try one more starter word.
grave
On edit; I think that what will make this list interesting is to find starter words that afford the greatest number of options.
Well, interesting to me, anyway. Other folks probably think I'm insane. Mar 10, 2007
oroboros I can imagine deadlines being dreadlines, but I'll bet that's not what's wanted here.
deadliness? Mar 10, 2007
uselessness Are word 1 and word 2 supposed to be antonyms of one another? Or just unreleated? If I'm understanding the rules right, I guess headlines...? Mar 10, 2007
sionnach To make things interesting, I will start out by listing only one of the pair I have in mind, so that folks can guess the other. To be clear: "differing by one letter" means that word 1 can be changed to word 2 in one of three ways - adding a letter, deleting an existing letter, changing an existing letter. Swapping the position of two existing letters (e.g. CRAVE/CARVE) does not count. Mar 10, 2007