Stripe
Y Combinator 2009 · Active United States Fintech Financial infrastructure stripe.com
Economic infrastructure for the internet.
Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : yellow
- A magnetic stripe is the only thread back to payments
- Brevity BREV : green
- 6 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 7 other dictionary words.
- Googlability GOOG : red
- An everyday word
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- One syllable
- Spellability SPEL : green
- Everyday word
- Verbability VERB : red
- Stripe was already a verb for unrelated reasons
- Nominology
- 75
- 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
- 6 chars, 1 syllable
- Distinctiveness
- arbitrary
This row is stitched from more than one source. Y Combinator supplied the company; Forbes Cloud 100 filled country and subindustry.
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.