diff --git a/NoSoliciting.Interface/NoSolUtil.cs b/NoSoliciting.Interface/NoSolUtil.cs
index 93335e8..1016a5f 100644
--- a/NoSoliciting.Interface/NoSolUtil.cs
+++ b/NoSoliciting.Interface/NoSolUtil.cs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ namespace NoSoliciting.Interface {
             '~', '-',
         };
 
-        private static string Spacify(string input) {
+        public static string Spacify(this string input) {
             return SpaceSymbols.Aggregate(input, (current, sym) => current.Replace(sym, ' '));
         }
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ namespace NoSoliciting.Interface {
             var normalised = input.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormKD);
 
             // replace several symbols with spaces instead
-            return spacify ? Spacify(normalised) : normalised;
+            return spacify ? normalised.Spacify() : normalised;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/NoSoliciting/Filter.cs b/NoSoliciting/Filter.cs
index 79b7693..736ae84 100644
--- a/NoSoliciting/Filter.cs
+++ b/NoSoliciting/Filter.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui;
 using Dalamud.Game.Internal.Gui.Structs;
 using Dalamud.Game.Text;
 using Dalamud.Game.Text.SeStringHandling;
+using NoSoliciting.Interface;
 using NoSoliciting.Ml;
 
 namespace NoSoliciting {
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ namespace NoSoliciting {
             }
 
             // only look at ml for pfs >= min words
-            if (desc.Trim().Split(' ').Length < MinWords) {
+            if (desc.Trim().Spacify().Split(' ').Length < MinWords) {
                 return null;
             }