[eterm]

The issue of hierarchy is that it's orthogonal to having very different results for nearby areas.

With a hierarchy you immediately run into, "Am I in gibbons.apple.banana or was it gibbons.apple.bandana" which is just down the road.

Without hierarchy it jumps out that one of those results is improbable if tallied with any knowledge of roughly where the person is.

[kybernetikos]

As you say, the issues are orthogonal. I randomise my wordlist so places next to each other don't have words necessarily close to each other in the alphabet. But because it's hierarchical e.g. most places in the uk start 'bishop'. I think this is good because you learn to recognise places,but imagine if loads of places in India started with the word 'colony'... it's a problem you don't have to worry about if you don't use a hierarchical scheme.

https://wherewords.id/