The FIVE letter word game (GAME)

This is a game of HIGHER vocabulary, and it helps MUUUCH if your range is huge. This is how the game goes, I choose a 5-letter word such as 'crate'. The next user that posts can change the order of letters and ONE letter to make a different word, eg. track, crane. Words are NOT allowed to be repeated. Helps your vocabulary more, if there is no more solution, the word will be changed.

Here goes!

crate

Crate>>Rates

rates => trace

trace=>races

races => craze