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Plaid

Unicorns 2013 · Active #36 by revenue United States Fintech Financial technology plaid.com

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Description from Wikidata (CC0). We rate the name, not the business.

Evocativity EVOC : red
A fabric pattern, unrelated to banking APIs
Brevity BREV : green
5 letters, 1 syllable. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
Greppability GREP : yellow
Found inside 9 other dictionary words.
Googlability GOOG : red
An everyday word
Pronounceability PRON : green
One syllable, ordinary word
Spellability SPEL : red
The ai is unrecoverable from the sound
Verbability VERB : red
No verb form
Nominology
53
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
2 / 4
Graham's own four-step ladder.
Exact .com
Owned
Shape
real word
Length
5 chars, 1 syllable
Distinctiveness
arbitrary

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This row is stitched from more than one source. Unicorns supplied the company; Forbes Cloud 100 filled year, domain, website, and team_size and Wikidata filled one_liner.

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.