Change one of 5 letters or rearrange them

You have successfully painted us into a corner, according to scrabblewordfinder.com. (This is only the second time this thread has forced me to reference this website.) I thus revert us back to the word before:

Juice

(Unless somebody has a word in a different language which applies.)

Juicy... Just gonna backtrack a bit 😬🤣

Curio

clout

couch

Achoo (sneeze)

Mooch

Coopt

Optic

Point

(Mike, to friends...sequel finished editing, investigating submitting to publisher rather than self-publish like first work)

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Latin

Taint

Titan

Riant