Autopay is one letter off from Autopsy

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I don't know if there's a word that covers this concept, but I think it's pretty interesting.

Basically, some words are very similar to other words, if you adjust one letter.

For instance, "Autopay" is only one letter away from "Autopsy", and the concepts are very different but in some way, seeing them so near each other makes a poetic bridge between the words. At least in my head.

Or take the word "Analogy"--if you add an "r", it becomes "Analorgy", which is a very different concept.

There's a similar (though different) example in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", where the line is "visions and revisions", which goes from grand prophecy into red ink on a term paper, linking the two concepts and drawing distinction between them.

Or this guy I knew in high school wrote a poem which had the line "Love is evil, backwards and misspelled".

Anyway, are there other interesting words that become other words either by adding or substituting a letter?