@LoyceV
Can you do 9 letters?
What type of fees are we talking (obviously this can't be a giveaway)
We're talking rediculous fees on my hardware
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1alexandre or 1ALEXANDRE or a mix of upper and lower
Lower case l isn't possible, but the time requirement also depends on the first character. Case insensitive, 1ALEXANDRE takes 3 weeks for 50% chance on my hardware. But (still case insensitive) 1zLEXANDRE for instance takes 1.7 years for 50% chance.
disclaimer : I don't want "alexandre" but another 9 letters name, I will share this via PM upon agreement on address cost.
You're best chance is probably hiring a VPS with GPU (or multiple GPUs), some of them have hourly rates. I think a good one will be 2 orders of magnitude faster than my hardware, so that should make it much faster. You can still use split key, so your VPS provider won't have access to the private key.
Alternatively, if you happen to have a long list of 9 letter words, finding 1 out of 1000 makes it (about) 1000 times faster to find the first one. You just won't know which one comes first (that's how I found 1NewbornSeat for instance).
In my opinion, case insensitive addresses don't look good at all. I have 1FAUCEtSUck for instance, and it would be worse if the start of the word has mixed case too.