Before launching a project name, ask a few people who have never seen the project to spell the name back after hearing it spoken once. Spell checkers only flag words that are not in their dictionary, so they will not catch a name that is technically valid but hard to reproduce from memory. If your testers consistently drop a letter, double the wrong consonant, or swap two vowels, that is a signal the name will cause confusion in real use.
To check for misreading, show the written name to people without explaining what it means and ask them to read it aloud. Pay attention to where they hesitate, where they split the name into different chunks than you intended, or where they assign stress to the wrong syllable. A name that looks clean on a slide can still be parsed in unexpected ways when someone encounters it for the first time in a list or a notification.
Typing effort is easy to overlook because the person who chose the name has already typed it dozens of times. Open a blank message or search field on a phone and on a desktop keyboard, then type the name slowly as if you were a first-time user. Notice whether you need to switch between uppercase and lowercase mid-word, reach for a symbol key, or hold a modifier. Each extra step is a place where a typo can slip in, especially in addresses, ticket titles, and chat mentions.
A quick combined test is to give a small group the written name, wait a few minutes, and then ask them to type it into a search bar or message composer from memory. Record where they pause, self-correct, or produce a variant spelling. This single exercise tends to surface all three problems at once β spelling gaps, ambiguous reading, and awkward input β without requiring any special tools, and the results give you concrete points to discuss if you decide to adjust the name before it spreads.