What do the following words have in common?

CODE
ODOR
CRAVE
BARELY

HINT:
It has to do with adjacent letters.

Answer:

Two adjacent letters in each word can be transposed to form a new word:

CODE - COED
ODOR - DOOR
CRAVE - CARVE
BARELY - BARLEY

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