Drunkonym.com is a drunktionary, taking the simple linguistic observation that in the English language, any noun can be turned into a drunkonym via the suffix of 'ed'.
We take this observation to the extreme by creating a drunktionary of almost every noun in the Wiktionary.
But there's an important point in these, that any noun can mean drunk in the English language by suffixing 'ed' or a variation of. Drunkonym.com takes it to the logical extreme — by creating them all.
Using Wiktionary English nouns as a source, we have produced over 400,000 drunkonyms. Many of these have also been assigned a name from the Anglosphere in their examples. You can search for yours.
Technical
The Rules
The following are considered V1 of The Drunkonym rules.
Pruning
We remove the following:
Emojis
Plurals
Most punctuation, non-latin characters and diacritics. Most words like this tend to have an anglicised or fully written version which remains.
Rule 1: Special Character and Capitalization
Last character is uppercase → append "'d"
Word is all caps → append "'d"
Word contains numbers → append "'d"
Multi-word/hyphenated entries:
If final part contains numbers → apply "'d" to entire entry
Rule 2: Words Ending in 'e'
Add 'd'
Rule 3: Words Ending in 'y'
Vowel + 'y' → add 'ed'
Consonant + 'y' → change 'y' to 'i' and add 'ed'
Rule 4: British-Style 'el' Endings
Words ending in 'el' → always double 'l' and add 'ed'
Rule 5: Vowel + 'c' Endings
Word ends with vowel + 'c' → add 'k' before 'ed'
Rule 6: 'qu' Pattern Words
Pattern 'qu' + vowel + consonant → double final consonant and add 'ed'
Rule 7: Special 'p' Doubling
Ends with 'p' AND short vowel (a,e,i,o,u) before it AND unstressed syllable → double 'p' and add 'ed'
Exception: -lop/-lope family words → no doubling, just add 'ed'
Rule 8: Special 'n' Doubling
Ends with 'n' AND short vowel (a,i,o,u - excluding 'e') before it AND unstressed syllable → double 'n' and add 'ed'
Rule 9: CVC Pattern (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant)
Sub-rule 9a: Never Double w/x/y
Final consonant is 'w', 'x', or 'y' → just add 'ed'
Sub-rule 9b: Vowel-h Endings
Words ending in vowel + 'h' → never double the 'h', just add 'ed'
Sub-rule 9c: Two-Syllable Words with First Syllable Stress
Final 'l' → always double (British style)
Final 't' after 'u' → double the 't'
All other consonants → no doubling
Sub-rule 9d: Three+ Syllable Words with Non-Final Stress
No doubling → just add 'ed'
Sub-rule 9e: One Syllable OR Final Syllable Stress
Double the final consonant and add 'ed'
Rule 10: Default Rule
All other cases → simply add 'ed'
Capitalization Preservation
Root portion → copy capitalization from original word
Suffix portion → use lowercase
Special handling for acronyms → preserve original pattern exactly
IPA Pronunciation Guides
Take these with a pinch of salt and consider them artistic flare only. Very little effort has gone into seeing if they are accurate.
Site Hosting Specifics
While being a fun experiment in linguistics this is also an experiment in static site generation and hosting. All drunkonym.com pages are pre-generated looking to use minimal HTML/CSS/JS, trying to keep the site fast and ensuring low hosting costs and very little ongoing maintenance. This comes with a few tradeoffs however.
Up front generation is slow - we're keeping track of a lot of pages and links.
If we make any changes then a large portion, if not all, of the site needs to be regenerated and uploaded. So while the site is fairly small in the context of disk space, our large number of objects mean a lot of cloud storage API operations when we making changes. Luckily our use case means we dont have to update very often.
The site is far too large to acceptably serve a client hosted search function. So a separate serverless function, using Cloudflare Workers, has been implemented for search and random pages.
The search function came with its own challenges. The search index is too large to bundle within the worker code. So instead, a separate database is generated and Cloudflare's D1 database with Full Text Search is utilised.
Data Sources
Our name examples are sourced from official statistics across the English-speaking world:
Disclaimer: Whilst Wiktionary is a neutral reference of language (the good and the bad), an effort has been made when generating our drunkonyms to reduce source words that serve only to direct hate towards marginalised groups. No doubt some have slipped through the net but these do not reflect the views of the authors.