# Can only upload a few dozen Watched Words
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031 "2023-12-20T09:17:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Yola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yola)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031/1 "2023-12-20T09:17:48Z")
Why can I only upload a few dozen words? What is the problem?
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031/2 "2023-12-20T11:28:18Z")
There is a maximum of 2000 words per watched word category. What are you trying to do?
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### Author:  [@tumbleweed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tumbleweed)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031/3 "2024-03-03T08:34:44Z")
Hello! Is there any way to increase this limitation? In a Chinese forum, having tens of thousands of watched words is quite common and necessary.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-only-upload-a-few-dozen-watched-words/294031/4 "2024-03-03T17:22:04Z")
I don’t believe there has been any movement on this subject since 2021
> [@Increase maximum watched words limit](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-increase-maximum-watched-words-limit/197798/2):
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> There are no plans to increase this limit at the moment. If this is a deal breaker you should look into writing, or commissioning, a plugin for it.