Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Trying to decide a name for a website, app or other project?

Good names are difficult to come up with. And if you've found one: have you considered what your potential name might mean in another language? What if it's something obscene?

WordSafety.com checks your word against swear words and unwanted associations in 19 languages. We also do phonetic matching, so you can catch pronounciations that might be problematic.

We respect your privacy — input is never logged or monitored.

Search for word:
No results found for this search. There's a reasonable chance that it's safe...

But you can never be quite sure. There are over 6,000 languages spoken in the world. Somewhere deep in the Amazonian jungle, this word could be an insult that gets you killed.

However, if you know this word should be in the database, then apologies for the omission — please submit it using the form below and save somebody from embarrassment!

Languages

WordSafety.com currently has about 3000 words and phonetic variations in the following languages:

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

This covers about 3.8 billion native speakers, and of course many more people who understand multiple languages.

Word missing?

Is your favorite swear word missing? Please let us know.
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Mailing list

This could be the mailing list you've been waiting for your whole life. Not only do you get "Dirty Foreign Word of the Week", but you may find the messages to be mildly entertaining or even interesting with topics including software business, life and how to succeed at naming things.

Service info & privacy

WordSafety.com is provided by Lacquer Oy/Ltd, a Finnish company.

Input is not directly logged or monitored, so we don't know what words you are searching for. We only record aggregates of matches so we have an idea of how many matches are occurring, but never specific searches.

For any questions, please contact info at lacquer dot fi.

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