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Canva

Unicorns 2012 · Active #9 by revenue Australia B2B Graphic design about.canva.com

Australian multinational proprietary software company

Description from Wikidata (CC0). We rate the name, not the business.

Evocativity EVOC : yellow
Canvas is audible in it, which is the design surface
Brevity BREV : green
5 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 11 other dictionary words.
Googlability GOOG : green
Only the company
Pronounceability PRON : green
Two syllables, reads cleanly
Spellability SPEL : yellow
The clipped ending invites Canvas
Verbability VERB : red
No verb form
Nominology
68
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
2 / 4
Graham's own four-step ladder.
Exact .com
Not owned
Shape
invented
Length
5 chars, 2 syllables
Distinctiveness
suggestive

This row is stitched from more than one source. Unicorns supplied the company; Forbes Cloud 100 filled year, domain, website, and team_size and Wikidata filled one_liner.

Rubric version 2026.10.20-1, judged by claude-fable-5-1 (hand-run). This scores the name only. See Methodology.

These judged dimensions were worked through by hand against the rubric rather than produced by the scoring pipeline. The model named above did the reasoning directly, one name at a time; the rubric and thresholds are identical, but this is not a pipeline result and a corpus run will replace it.