HACKER Q&A
📣 asimjalis

What is it called when brands deliberately misspell names


For example, Krispy Kreme.


  👤 fuckcensorship Accepted Answer ✓
Cacography [1], perhaps?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacography


👤 cratermoon
Unique enough to be a trademark or service mark.

👤 tintedfireglass
You can't copyright dictionary common names like crispy and cream but you can copyright Krispy and Kreme.

👤 jdrc
"the domain name was not available"

👤 bradwood
A creativity failure

👤 aaaaaaaaata
Corporatization

👤 Overtonwindow
Edginess

👤 tims33
domain-name-ization