WordSafety is a new website that launched a few days ago that allows you to check if a word means something bad in another language.
Starting a new business can be quite difficult, as you need a significant amount of capital. But the issue doesn't stop there. In the age of the Internet, it's very easy to make your company known worldwide, even from the very first moment.
Most startups today try to launch something different, including their name, which usually becomes a .com domain. Since almost all common words with the .com suffix have already been bought, most new entrepreneurs invent words that often end up having hidden meanings.
Services like Launchnink or Namebird provide business owners with the tools to randomly generate a new company name and then register it as a domain, but these tools can sometimes put them in unfortunate word associations.
This is where WordSafety comes into play, allowing users to enter their own words as well as word combinations and see if they have bad meanings in other languages or even if they are simply flattering to the owner's business and activity.
The service currently has a database of 3,000 words and supports Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
These 19 languages cover 3.8 billion of the planet's population, and should help you avoid embarrassing situations when expanding your company's operations abroad.
