Capitals Where Changing One Letter Makes a Different Word

Each answer is a national capital city with exactly one letter changed to form a new, valid English word. Your job is to guess the original National Capital
Example: Puns = Puno (Capital of a region in Peru)
The word is not always in the same order as the capital
No letters are added or removed — just swapped
These words are accepted in Scrabble
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Word
Capital
Rope
Rome
Limo
Lima
Burn
Bern
Santa
Sana'a
Rigs
Riga
Suba
Suva/Juba
Mule
Male
Love
Lome
Bake
Baku
Parks
Paris
Plague
Prague
Cairn
Cairo
Quite
Quito
Also
Oslo
Asia
Apia
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2 Comments
+4
Level 72
Aug 7, 2025
Chair and Cairo doesn't work

other than that, i really like this quiz

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Level 61
Aug 7, 2025
Thanks! Why doesn't Chair/Cairo work? The letter that changes is o-h and is just in a different order