Make as many as possible from 1 word!! Can only change 1 letter!?

Question

I have a starting word, after that, you may change only 1 letter and make a new word. You may not REMOVE or ADD an extra letter.

Example: bear

beat

seat



I need help!!!! LOL!

Starting word: CREATE

Answer 1

For any reasonable starting choice like 'CREATE', you should be able to traverse most of the 19,000+ 6-letter words in the English language.
You could write a program (recursive backtracking) that does this (using e.g. this lexicon of 6-letter words: http://www.esclub.gr/games/wordox/6.html), or manually use a wordfinder for 6-letter words and with a '?' wildcard in each letter position,
e.g. '?REATE', 'C?EATE', 'CR?ATE'...


So here's a manual try (read it top-to-bottom; the side chains with -> arrows are apparent dead-ends):
CREATE
CREASE
GREASE
GREASY
CREASY
CREAMY -> CREAKY -> CREAKS
DREAMY
DREAMT
DREAMS -> DREARS -> DREARY
... you get the idea... 19,000+ words is your target...

Answer 2

thats awesome! hahaha i had to say it out loud to understand it hahahaha have a star

Answer 3

reacts

Answer 4

create
crease
grease