PayPal
Forbes Global 2000 1998 #295 by revenue United States B2B Business Services & Supplies paypal.com
PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Forbes Global 2000's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : green
- Pay plus pal names the act and the tone
- Brevity BREV : green
- 6 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
- Only the company
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- Alliterative, reads instantly
- Spellability SPEL : green
- Both halves are common words
- Verbability VERB : green
- PayPal me is the company's own coinage
- Nominology
- 100
- 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
- 1 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Owned
- Shape
- compound
- Length
- 6 chars, 2 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
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.