What language is what3words?

Languages available for what3words Voice:
English (US) English (Australia) English (UK) Spanish (Spain
Spanish (Spain
The International Phonetic Association defines Castilian Spanish as the formal Spanish spoken in Castile by educated speakers. In Spanish, the term castellano (Castilian) refers to the Spanish language as a whole, or to the medieval Old Spanish, a predecessor to Early Modern Spanish.
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How many languages is what3words available in?

what3words is currently available in 50 languages, with many more in progress.
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Is What 3 words only in English?

London-based startup what3words has given every location on Earth a three-word English address; now, it's working to support as many languages as possible so that users worldwide can find any destination in their native tongue.
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What countries use what 3 words?

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. ​”We are very delighted to expand our services in collaboration with what3words” said Willie Tekanene, manager of mail operations at Kiribati Post.
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What are the three words in Arabic?

We're excited to share the news that what3words is now available in Arabic, opening up our platform to the world's 230 million Arabic speakers. With 14 language versions in total, more than 3 billion people can now use what3words.
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What’s wrong with what3words?



What does 7 mean in Arabic texting?

7 — ح 8 — ق The following are some example words/phrases to get you started reading Arabic written in the Latin alphabet.
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Is what3words in other languages?

We are delighted to announce what3words voice search is now available in over 20 languages.
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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.
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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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Does what3words cover the oceans?

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.
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What word ends with gry?

Again, there are only two common words in English that end in -gry: angry and hungry.
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What are the three words of China?

These exciting partnerships mean that now more and more drivers in China can enter a 3 word address, in Chinese, by voice or text to navigate to any 3m x 3m destination. A 3 word address is very easy to enter into any car navigation system, manually or via speech recognition.
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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.
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What are the three words in Canada?

what3words is a game-changer. By simply saying 3 words it means we can now locate callers with a powerful degree of accuracy, helping us dispatch the right resource to exactly where the emergency is. I encourage the public to download the what3words app, and am proud to have had the first what3words rescue in Canada.
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What are the three words in Australia?

In the what3words app

Dial Triple Zero (000) and read the 3 words on your screen to the call taker. They'll know exactly where to send help.
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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.
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Does Google Maps Recognise what3words?

The what3words grid can be displayed on top of a Google Map by passing GeoJSON data to the maps Dataobject.
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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.
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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.
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Do emergency services use what 3 words UK?

Questions have been raised about a digital addressing system which divides the world up into three-by- three-metre squares to pinpoint someone's location. What3Words (W3W) gives each square a unique three-word address, and the app is used by 100 UK emergency services.
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What are the three words of Mongolia?

According to Joon Ian Wong at Quartz, instead of a street names and numbers, what3words divides the entire surface of the Earth into 57 trillion 3-meter by 3-meter squares. Each square is assigned a three-word phrase derived from an algorithm that uses a list of 40,000 words to create the geo-codes.
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How does what 3 words UK work?

Three successful rescues which relied on three simple words. What3words divides the world into three-metre squares and gives each one a unique three-word address in order for people to be easily found in emergencies, and to give the billions of people without a formal address access to one for the first time.
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What are the three words in the UK?

Please note, what3words is accepted by over 80% of UK emergency services. While it is used by some services in other countries, use is not yet widespread outside of the UK. In an emergency, you should call 999 and give the call handler the what3words address for where help is needed.
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How popular is what3words?

what3words users

We know it has been downloaded over 10 million times on iOS and Android.
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Where does What 3 words work?

It is owned by What3words Limited, based in London, England. The system encodes geographic coordinates into three permanently fixed dictionary words. For example, the front door of 10 Downing Street in London is identified by ///slurs.
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