Which of these names will I still like in five years?

Your shortlist put through five plain tests and ranked, with what to check before you commit.


When to use
When you’re down to a few names and your favorite changes every morning.
Time
5 min

The prompt

I’m naming , for . The names I’m considering: . Don’t just tell me your favorite. Put each one through the same five tests: how it sounds said out loud, whether someone could spell it after hearing it once, what a stranger would guess it is, what it could be confused with, and whether it still fits if the thing grows or changes. Show the results in a table, then rank the names and tell me which test decided it. You can’t know from here whether a name is already taken or what it means in other languages, so list what I should check myself. If none of them holds up, say so, and tell me what the best of mine got right.

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