riddle? (in Off-topic)

try not to google this... (i dont know the answer either)
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Startling
Starting
Staring
String
Sting
Sing
Sin
In
I

I thought it was tomato, dang.

Three more solutions

replanted, replated, related, elated, elate, late, ate, at, a
restarted, restated, restate, estate, state, sate, ate, at, a
streambed, streamed, steamed, teamed, tamed, tame, tam, am, a

(You'll have to accept tam as a short form of tam-o'-shanter, which is a type of hat that G_Beee wears)