Beyond printed resources, namers are increasingly turning to online tools, which provide efficiencies and capabilities that books alone can’t. Many of the sites listed below were recommended by professional namers I interviewed on season one of my podcast, How Brands Are Built.1
Dictionaries and Thesauruses
• The Free Dictionary’s Idioms dictionary (idioms.thefreedictionary.com)
• One Across (oneacross.com)
• Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com)
• Visual Thesaurus (visualthesaurus.com)
• WordHippo (wordhippo.com)
Word Combiners
• Kombinator (kombinator.org)
• WordsMerger (wordsmerger.com)
Language Dictionaries and Translation Sites
• Forvo (forvo.com)
• Google Translate (translate.google.com ...
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