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

ourangs

(zymurgy in three. Maybe Annie-Xmas is on my team.)

rangers

wrangle

(You guys are no fun! :smiley: Let’s try for a different hard-to-reach word…

walkway in two!)

dangles

slander
(frankly, I can’t think of any word that’s one turn away from zymurgy…)

seaward

(walkway in two.)

Go to this “Scrabble cheat” page, enter ZYMURGY?? as your tiles, click Go, and sort by word length to find two such words (one slang) in the Official Scrabble Dictionary. There are at least three other such words not in OSD: a legitimate lower-case dictionary word, a Genus name, and another slang word.

earwigs

wigwams

warming

warning

awnings

walking

gawking

hawking

gnawing

winging

wending

vending

sending

dingoes