How many words are in what 3 words?

Each what3words language uses a list of 25,000 words (40,000 in English, as it covers sea as well as land). The lists are manually checked to remove homophones and offensive words. What3words originally sold "OneWord" addresses, which were stored in a database for a yearly fee, but this offering has been discontinued.

How do you find out your What 3 words?

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.

What is 3 word format?

what3words is a digital geocoding system. But instead of being limited to addresses, what3words lets you identify any location that's three by three meters, or 10 by 10 feet, in size. The system is available for free on what3words' website, and it also has Android and iOS apps.

Does What 3 words cover the world?

Why did you use three words? To make what3words precise enough to refer to an entrance or parking spot, it needed to be accurate to a 3m square. This meant we needed 57 trillion addresses to cover the world, and three words allowed us to create 64 trillion addresses – covering the entire world with quite a few spare!

How big is what three words?

The app's size is around 50MB. If you'd like to add extra languages to the app, other than UK English, each language is up to 7MB to download.

A precise, three-word address for every place on earth | Chris Sheldrick

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.

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.

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How does what 3 words work without signal?

Without phone signal, the app functions the same as when you have no data connection: you can view the location of any what3words address you enter. You can also navigate to it using compass mode. To share a what3words address over the phone or in a text message you need phone signal.

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 app free?

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

Can you use what 3 words in Google Maps?

What3words is available on the Web, Android and iOS now.

What are the first three words you see?

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

Can you get a postcode from what 3 words?

Postcodes identify a far larger area than the 3m square identified by a what3words address. For this reason, it's not possible to accurately convert a postcode to a what3words address.

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.

How does what 3 words make money?

We make money by licensing our API to businesses.

Businesses can access what3words functionality through our Public API or our Enterprise Suite (which includes SDKs for offline use). But what are we actually selling? We charge businesses to license our code for turning what3words addresses into GPS coordinates.

Does the AA use what3words?

AA customers can now provide their what3words address during a breakdown to help identify their location faster.

How many countries use what3words?

Kiribati is the eight country to adopt what3words as an addressed standard, along with Mongolia, Sint-Maarten, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Tonga, Nigeria and Solomon Islands.

How many employees does what3words have?

What3Words is a navigation startup that began life as a consumer product, but pivoted to B2B. A major milestone was signing Mercedes-Benz as a client in February 2019. While now boasting 100 employees, What3Words does not anticipate adding new staff over the next 12-24 months and is instead focused on profitability.

What were Chris Sheldrick's three words?

Chris is the CEO & Co-Founder of what3words – a global address system that names every 3m square in the world with a unique 3-word address. Some of their backers include Intel, Mercedes (Daimler), Sony, Deutsche Bahn, SAIC Motor Corp, Aramex, Horizons Ventures, & Alpine Electronics.

Who invented three 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.