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Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : yellow
- Zap hints at speed, not at connecting apps
- 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 : yellow
- Rhymes with happier, which the company has to keep explaining
- Spellability SPEL : yellow
- One p or two is a coin flip by ear
- Verbability VERB : red
- No established verb form
- Nominology
- 73
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 70
- 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
- invented
- Length
- 6 chars, 2 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- fanciful
This row is stitched from more than one source. Y Combinator supplied the company; Forbes Cloud 100 filled country.
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.