In an emergency, where mobile telephone reception may be less than perfect, the chances of a miscommunication seems high. I don't think I would want to depend on What3Words if I needed urgent assistance.


Fer Chissake. The emergency services (in the UK fer sure) would submit the words in and deduce which multiple locations locations were not in their demesne. The website offers alternatives, - give it a try.

Don't you think the What3Word wallers haven't pre-empted that by ensuring that conflict would be bleeding obvious? They are programmers, they can run the permutations. And ascribe for clarity. They tell you that. They ain't idiots. And how devastating is a misheard LatLong or OSGR? I use them hourly and believe me, copy & paste, mostly.

While we are on misheard addresses, I give you a supreme example, from the 1970s. One late night walking home (sizeable estate). I paused crossing the road to let a fire engine, blue lights flashing, past. They stopped and said "Do you now where Acacia Avenue is?". Gobsmacked me could only say "no mate". Does that sound like a misheard address? So badly garbled they wanted local knowledge and another brain to triangulate (verbally) to the right one. Sounds like it.