Company Anagrams 0 ▲ Arbourtrary RSS Feed 1 day ago · Culture · hide Company Anagrams Inspiration: My brain is a jumble of parenting, tech news and word games. One day in my boredom I thought about the company name Vercel. It seemed odd, and I wondered where that name came from. Then realized Vercel is an anagram of clever. I can't verify if that was intentionally done by their hired branding agency? But it made me wonder about other companies. Description: To figure out if other companies were anagrams like this, I pulled together some data sources and filtered for (ideally / mostly) companies people actually recognize. The list is biased towards tech: the 1,000 largest US-listed companies by market cap from the SEC, companies with articles on 25 or more Wikipedias from Wikidata, Y Combinator's top companies, and a handful of other sources. Method: English words come from SCOWL's standard-size dictionary, filtered out if they're not in the 70,000 most common words in Peter Norvig's counts from the Google Web Trillion Word Corpus. Appendix Acercare,… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
