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Y Combinator 2016 · Inactive B2B bus.com

The easiest way to charter a bus in North America.

Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.

Formerly Sharethebus

Evocativity EVOC : green
Bus directly names the chartered vehicle
Brevity BREV : green
6 letters, 2 syllables. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
Greppability GREP : green
Found inside 0 other dictionary words.
Googlability GOOG : yellow
Generic vehicle word remains prior competition
Pronounceability PRON : green
Familiar noun and dot com read naturally
Spellability SPEL : green
Spoken dot com gives clear characters
Verbability VERB : red
Domain form resists verb use
Nominology
73
All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
Fluency
100
Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
PG grade
3 / 4
Graham's own four-step ladder.
Exact .com
Not owned
Shape
invented
Length
7 chars, 2 syllables
Distinctiveness
generic

Watkins SCRATCH flags

  • Tame

Rubric version 2026.10.20-1, judged by gpt-6.1-sol (agent). This scores the name only. See Methodology.

These judged dimensions came from an AI agent working through the judging queue in a chat, on the same rubric the scoring pipeline sends. The agent passed the calibration exam before its work was accepted, and each batch it judged hid two names with known answers as a check. The model is named as the agent reported it.