# `too_short`: fewer digits than any number in that plan

After the calling code, the number has fewer digits than the shortest subscriber number of its plan, so it cannot be dialled.

- Appears in: `reason`
- Billing: Free. Invalid numbers never cost a credit.

Every plan has a minimum length per number type; a value below it is a truncated paste, a missing area code, or a short code. Emergency numbers and short codes are recognised separately, as emergency_number and short_number, when a country is known.

**What to do.** Look for a missing area code or a cut-off paste. When the value came from a form, show the user exactly what was checked.

```json
{
    "valid": false,
    "reason": "too_short",
    "e164": null,
    "country": null,
    "risk_score": null
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/reasons/too_short