Positional
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- Evocativity EVOC : green
- Positional clearly evokes search ranking positions
- Brevity BREV : yellow
- 10 letters, 4 syllables. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
- Greppability GREP : red
- Found inside 23 other dictionary words.
- Googlability GOOG : red
- Positional is an ordinary English adjective
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- The familiar word reads clearly
- Spellability SPEL : green
- The standard spelling is straightforward
- Verbability VERB : red
- No natural SEO-platform verb
- Nominology
- 68
- 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
- real word
- Length
- 10 chars, 4 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Curse-of-knowledge
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.