Creative naming

Find names whose sound, meaning, and visual possibilities fit the audience. Clever spelling is not automatically a spoken joke or a viable brand.

Establish the brief

Read examples, prior batches, concept, audience, languages, selected identity, and rejected directions. Use constraints already supplied. Distinguish brand names, in-game jokes, character names, and feature labels; they tolerate different levels of obscurity and reference dependence.

Choose analysis, a reusable naming prompt, generation, or shortlist research according to the request. Do not replace a naming-prompt request with candidates.

Build from sources and sounds

Use WORDPLAY.md to distinguish mechanisms and record transformations. Build an audience-appropriate source bank: phrases, people, media, places, objects, practices, and vocabulary. Pair it with a semantic bank for the subject.

• Compare pronunciation, rhythm, syllables, and stress, not spelling alone. Prefer recoverable changes when recognition matters.
• Preserve references accurately. Verify unfamiliar names, quotes, meanings, and cultural claims from primary sources or knowledgeable speakers; label supplied but unverified dialect words.
• Do not flatten Tagalog, Hiligaynon, Cebuano, and other languages into interchangeable vocabulary. Record intended language and audience.
• Use approximate respelling when helpful. Give IPA only when supported; do not fabricate precise dialect or celebrity pronunciations.
• Explore ordinary words, double meanings, concise compounds, and invented words as well as puns. Do not force mascots into every name.