Culdesac
Y Combinator 2018 · Active Real Estate and Construction Housing and Real Estate culdesac.com
We build cities for people, not cars.
Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : green
- Residential street term clearly suggests neighborhood design
- Brevity BREV : yellow
- 8 letters, 3 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 : red
- Everyday street-layout term has prior meaning
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- Familiar cul-de-sac sound pattern
- Spellability SPEL : yellow
- Hyphens and word boundaries need confirmation
- Verbability VERB : red
- Street noun supplies no natural city-building verb
- Nominology
- 65
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 80
- Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
- PG grade
- 1 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Owned
- Shape
- invented
- Length
- 8 chars, 3 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
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.