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D.R. Horton

Fortune 1000 1978 #134 by revenue · DHI United States Real Estate and Construction Homebuilders drhorton.com

D.R. Horton, Inc. engages in the construction and sale of single-family housing.

Fortune 1000's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.

Evocativity EVOC : red
Initials and surname give no homebuilding cue
Brevity BREV : green
8 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 : green
Distinctive complete personal name
Pronounceability PRON : yellow
Initials require separate reading
Spellability SPEL : yellow
Periods and Horton versus Horten are uncertain
Verbability VERB : red
Initials and surname phrase resists verb use
Nominology
68
All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
Fluency
70
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
phrase
Length
11 chars, 2 syllables
Distinctiveness
arbitrary

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.