see also

• wordplay / swordplay
• aspirin / aspiring
• pacifying / opacifying
• laughter / slaughter
• residential / presidential
• palmistry / psalmistry
• koran / Korean
• aligned / maligned
• lamber / clamber
• irate / pirate
• auteur / hauteur
• bely / belay
• comb / combo
• latte / latter
• alan berg / alban berg
• dentures / denatures
• desalinization / de-stalinization
• astray / ashtray
• depot / despot
• rapeseed oil / grapeseed oil
• bananas / bandanas
• ravenous / intravenous
  • okay, three letters
• impudent / imprudent
• beatify / beautify
• dimer / dimmer
• trimer / trimmer
• belies / bellies
• entails / entrails
• upsot / upshot
• marred / married
• asses / assess
• defied / deified
• rigidly / frigidly
• Bowie / bowtie
• mediation / meditation
• surname / Suriname
• subtopics / subtropics
• allowing / wallowing / swallowing
• adios / radios
  • thanks jonathan!
• confer / conifer
• often / soften
• flaming / flamingo
• came / camel
• uniformed / uninformed
• quadruped / quadrupled
• revered / reversed
• overhead / overheard
• comic / cosmic
• heretically / hermetically
• settle / Seattle
• addition / addiction
• neural / neutral
• smother / smoother
• peachy / preachy
• lability / liability
• Vegas / vegans
• Berlin / Oberlin
• pastis / pasties
• maples / mapless
• artisan / partisan
• deadlines / deadliness
• forge / forget
• Antony / antonym
• Dustin / dusting
• therein / theremin
• undeserved / underserved
• shogun / shotgun
• tagine / tagline
• needles / needless
• gushy / gunshy
• emesis / nemesis
• biotch / biotech
• insulting / insulating
• extant / sextant
• rotting / rotating
• eggings / jeggings
• immorality / immortality
• raisin / raising
• skillet / skillset
• impudent / imprudent
• winery / wintery
• morels / morsels
• exist / sexist
• articulate / particulate
• usurer / usurper
• imperious / impervious
• alumna / alumina
• gnomic / genomic
• heater / heather
• rectal / recital
• harassed / hardassed
• Hanover / hangover
• defection / defecation
• defeated / defecated
• catcall / catchall
• stalemates / stablemates
• denouement / denouncement
  • two letters
• additive / addictive
• firehose / firehouse
• airlines / hairlines
• turkey / turnkey
• ticking / tickling
• oxtail / foxtail
• greed / agreed
• oftener / softener
• awful / lawful
• divers / diverse
• celerity / celebrity
• anal / banal
• corneal / cornmeal
• forging / forgoing
• indicted / indicated
• that's so meta / that's so metal
• hastening / chastening
• gamelan / gameplan
• imperil / imperial
• liability / likability
• sorbet / sorbent
• faring / farting / farthing
• acuity / vacuity
• scaling / scalding
• deadlocks / dreadlocks
• archival / archrival
• layering / lawyering
• inuit / intuit
• daring / darling
• pained / painted
• purses / pursues
• ruination / rumination
• brie / bribe
• ragged / bragged
• hokey / hotkey
• coming / combing
• overboard / hoverboard
• Da Shi / da shit!
• savaging / salvaging
• arable / parable
• cofounded / confounded
• really / regally
• David Boies / David Bowie's
• finale / finagle
• alteration / altercation
• vanish / varnish
• unless / sunless
• intestate / interstate
• composing / composting
• slander / islander
• tripe / triple
• listening / glistening
• insolent / insolvent
• india / indica / indicia
• Doug / dough
• feces / fences
• astronomy / gastronomy
• elven / eleven
• deist / desist
• pedant / pendant
• frisee / frisbee
• simulated / stimulated
• shutout / shoutout
• textually / texturally
• started / startled
• boated / bloated
• hunches / haunches
• food / flood
• foodways / floodways
• favism (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency causing lethal allergy to fava beans) / fauvism (pre-expressionist artistic movement)
• miseries / miniseries
  • two letters
• sentient / sentiment
• baking / basking
• turbo / turbot
• ikea boss / like a boss
• beagle / be agile
• heists / theists
• pended / upended
• capers / campers
• icily / Sicily
• overall / coverall
• buses / abuses