How many what three words are there?

Each what3words language uses a list of 25,000 words (40,000 in English, as it covers sea as well as land).

How many squares does what3words?

As mentioned above, what3words has around 57 trillion squares each with unique 3 word addresses around the world.

Why does what 3 words exist?

About | what3words. Street addresses aren't accurate enough to specify precise locations, such as building entrances, and don't exist for parks and many rural areas. This makes it hard to find places and prevents people from describing exactly where help is needed in an emergency. That's why we created what3words.

How do I know what my 3 words are?

Tap on the speech bubble icon in the search bar. Say the three words, without the dots or slashes, and choose the correct result. Tap the scan icon in the search bar to open a scanning window. Frame the what3words address in the indicated area, keeping it still for a few seconds.

How does what three words work?

what3words starts by dividing the entire globe into squares that are three by three meters, a convenient area size to give an accurate location without overwhelming the system or user. That adds up to around 57 trillion squares—yes, the squares include bodies of water like lakes, seas, and oceans.

What’s wrong with what3words?

Does what3words cost money?

what3words is free for anyone to use via our app and online map. We make money by charging some businesses that benefit commercially from using our products. For example, what3words built into Mercedes-Benz's cars improves the customer experience for its drivers.

Is what3words more accurate than GPS?

What3words (w3w) is an incredibly simple system that identifies the precise locations of addresses and navigates you to them. It works like the more common GPS but is more accurate and can pinpoint locations that don't have street addresses.

What are some 3 letter words?

Who invented What 3 words?

Founded by Chris Sheldrick, Jack Waley-Cohen, Mohan Ganesalingam and Michael Dent, what3words was launched in July 2013. Sheldrick and Ganesalingam conceived the idea when Sheldrick, working as an event organizer, struggled to get bands and equipment to music venues using inadequate address information.

What are three word codes?

What3words is a geocode system used to communicate a location on planet Earth using only 3 words instead of using complex longitude and latitude coordinates. What3words have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique 3-word address that will never change.

Is what3words safe to use?

But security researcher Andrew Tierney recently discovered that What3Words would sometimes have two similarly-named squares less than a mile apart, potentially causing confusion about a person's true whereabouts. In a later write-up, Tierney said What3Words was not adequate for use in safety-critical cases.

Is What 3 words always in English?

How is using what3words different from using a PIN?

How is what3words different to sharing a pin? A location pin is impossible to describe over the phone or radio, to write down, or to enter into a speech recognition system. what3words offers a more flexible way to pass location information between people and machines or devices, online or offline.

Does What 3 words work at sea?

Every 3m square of the world's seas and oceans have what3words addresses in English and in Korean. All other what3words languages cover land and coastline areas only.

Is what3words used in the United States?

London-based What3words offers its service free to emergency services, and it's persuaded more than three quarters of UK emergency services to use it. Now it's got a foothold in North American customers, What3words plans to announce Tuesday.

What are the three Google words?

Tapping the Google Maps API, What3words serves up a Web, Android and iOS app, each letting you search for and identify locations based around, well, three words. It's touted as a new universal address system, designed to make it easier, and more accurate, to describe exact locations anywhere on Earth.

What are the first three words you see?

First three words you see are your reality. Mine are "Creation, Love, Gratitude".

Does Amazon use three words?

Today, what3words introduced the what3words skill for Amazon Alexa. The skill enables Alexa users to discover where a 3-word address is and ask to be navigated there by any Alexa-enabled device.

What is a 3 letter word with a?

The 3 Letter Words Starting with A are ant, act, ant, ate, air, ask, arc, art, aid, ago, are, aim, add, etc.

What is the best 3 letter word?

What is the word of 3?

ternary, third, treble, trilateral, trinitarian, triple, ternion, triad, trichotomy, trilogy, trinity, trio, triplet, triplicate, triplicity, triumvirate, trivium, troika, pyramidal, ternate.

Is What 3 words better than Google Maps?

Google Maps is a tool for navigation, public transport and for looking up POIs. what3words has a very different function – it's an easy way to communicate exact locations, whether that's spoken over the phone or into a car voice navigation system, or typed into a taxi app or a website checkout page.

Why does what three words keep changing?

what3words addresses are fixed and will never change. That's how what3words is able to work offline and needs no updates or database. We know a lot of people would like to personalise the words in their addresses, but this can't be done.

Is what3words app free?

what3words is available as a free app for iOS and Android and online map at map.what3words.com.