I didn't even realize it was a play on resolve. I was reading it as rye-solve

True! I would guess that was the original motivation from the author - to make it unique, short and be able to purchase a .com domain name.

Ran into the same issue when naming our startup ClaimR, searching for the name on Google would indeed give a suggestion "Did you mean 'claim'" and completely tank our SEO.

Although ~9 months after launching the site it stopped giving this hint. Not completely sure what changed it, although in the meantime we added the domain to the Google Search Console and incorporated.