A mysterious list of words

Question

What property do the following words have in common: gnat, green, one, onyx, rail, roof? Can you find another word that has the same property?

Two more puzzles that have exactly the same mechanism. – bobble Apr 14 '21 at 02:43 — bobble, Apr 14 '21 at 02:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '21 at 02:03

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I think it is

When rot13'ed, it is another word.

Why? Because

GNAT ---> TANG, GREEN ---> TERRA, ONE ---> BAR, ONYX ---> BALK, RAIL ---> ENVY, and the last one is ROOF ---> EBBS.

As for the extra question,

CHAT ---> PUNG

answered Apr 14 '21 at 02:03

IsaacRoan Sison

Yep you got it! I realized that there is a similar puzzle: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/98121/what-should-these-be-called – Dmitry Kamenetsky Apr 14 '21 at 02:12

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