Seven letter words change one or two letter to make a new word

shudder

brushes

brushed

drubbed

drummed

trimmed

reminds

rewinds

rewards

records

seconds

section

station

elation

nm- goofed.

(You can’t make “goofed” from “elation;” I’m sorry, them’s the rules. :D)

BIP:

fudged

(from “goofed”)

Umm, that’s six letters, not seven. Who would want to live in a universe like that? :wink:

So the procedure here is to borrow a letter from WheatCat’s parallel world (the “nm-” part) so we can preserve a turtle. Back in play:

smudged

(Crap in a hat, ya got me dead to rights; time for a nap and then new specs! Boy, is my face red. :smack:)

BIP:

midgets

Bridget

Bridges