IBM
Forbes Global 2000 1911 #78 by revenue United States B2B IT Software & Services ibm.com
International Business Machines Corp.
Forbes Global 2000's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : red
- Initials conceal the computing meaning
- 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 1 other dictionary word.
- Googlability GOOG : red
- Three-letter initials have unrelated prior uses
- Pronounceability PRON : red
- Letter string must be read individually
- Spellability SPEL : green
- Spoken letter names recover IBM
- Verbability VERB : red
- Initialism has no natural 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
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.