CDW
Fortune 1000 1984 #205 by revenue · CDW United States B2B Information Technology Services cdw.com
CDW Corp. engages in the provision of information technology solutions to small, medium, and large business, government, education, and healthcare customers.
Fortune 1000's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : red
- Initials give no IT-service cue
- Brevity BREV : green
- 3 letters, 1 syllable. 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 : red
- Collision-damage waiver abbreviation and others compete
- Pronounceability PRON : red
- Letters must be read separately
- Spellability SPEL : green
- Spoken letter names recover CDW
- Verbability VERB : red
- Initialism lacks a natural IT action sense
- Nominology
- 50
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 40
- Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
- PG grade
- 3 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Owned
- Shape
- initialism
- Length
- 3 chars, 1 syllable
- Distinctiveness
- fanciful
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Curse-of-knowledge
- Hard-to-pronounce
This row is stitched from more than one source. Fortune 1000 supplied the company; forbes2000 filled year, country, and one_liner and S&P 500 / GICS filled subindustry.
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.