diff --git a/TextArt/config.py b/TextArt/config.py
index c605aee..119fac4 100644
--- a/TextArt/config.py
+++ b/TextArt/config.py
@@ -93,5 +93,8 @@ conf.registerChannelValue(TextArt, 'bg',
 conf.registerChannelValue(TextArt, 'maxLength',
     registry.Integer(20, _("""Set the maximum character length for text to figlet inputs""")))
 
+conf.registerChannelValue(TextArt, 'maxWords',
+    registry.Integer(4, _("""Set the maximum number of words for text to figlet inputs""")))
+
 conf.registerGlobalValue(TextArt, 'userAgents',
     registry.CommaSeparatedListOfStrings(["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:73.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0"], _("""Reported user agent when fetching links""")))
diff --git a/TextArt/plugin.py b/TextArt/plugin.py
index f442ccf..2ad63ec 100644
--- a/TextArt/plugin.py
+++ b/TextArt/plugin.py
@@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ class TextArt(callbacks.Plugin):
         channel = msg.args[0]
         if len(text) > self.registryValue('maxLength', msg.channel):
             return
+        if len(text.split(' ')) > self.registryValue('maxWords', msg.channel):
+            return
+        elif len(text.split('|')) > self.registryValue('maxWords', msg.channel):
+            return
         optlist = dict(optlist)
         font = None
         words = []
@@ -1016,6 +1020,8 @@ class TextArt(callbacks.Plugin):
             return
         if len(text) > self.registryValue('maxLength', msg.channel):
             return
+        if len(text.split(' ')) > self.registryValue('maxWords', msg.channel):
+            return
         optlist = dict(optlist)
         opts = ''
         if 'f' in optlist:
@@ -1076,6 +1082,8 @@ class TextArt(callbacks.Plugin):
             return
         if len(text) > self.registryValue('maxLength', msg.channel):
             return
+        if len(text.split(' ')) > self.registryValue('maxWords', msg.channel):
+            return
         optlist = dict(optlist)
         opts = ''
         if 'f' in optlist: