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Pinterest Hashtag Checker

Paste a pin description: each hashtag turned back into the words it stands for, and what to fix.

Your hashtags

5 hashtags: 2 things to fix

  • #falldecorfall decor
  • #cozyhomecozy home
  • #livingroomideasliving room ideasin your sentences
  • #fypfypanother network's feed tag
  • #falldecorfall decorused twice
  • Used twice: #falldecor. Once is enough.
  • #fyp: made for another network's feed (TikTok's For You page, Instagram's Explore), not for Pinterest search. Don’t use any other unscrupulous tactics to attempt to improperly influence distribution, clicks, or other metrics, including: buying or selling engagement, "stuffing" irrelevant keywords, generating inauthentic traffic, or redirecting existing Pins to new destinations. Pinterest Community Guidelines, Spam (last updated May 2026)

The words they stand for

fall decor · cozy home · living room ideas

What Pinterest itself says

Its hashtag announcement, 26 September 2017: Starting today, when you include hashtags in the description for a new Pin, Pinners can visit a feed of all the Pins that share that hashtag. Whether those Pins are promoted or not, the freshest Pins will always appear right up top.

Pinterest publishes no number of hashtags to use: none of its help, business or newsroom pages we read gives one. The "more than five is a pile" line above is our writing advice, the same as our title checker's.

Checked 2 October 2026. Nothing you paste leaves this page.

Quick answer: hashtags still work on Pinterest the way Pinterest described them when it launched them: Starting today, when you include hashtags in the description for a new Pin, Pinners can visit a feed of all the Pins that share that hashtag. That was its announcement of 26 September 2017, and it is the newest word of its own on hashtags we could find. Pinterest publishes no number of hashtags to use. What every pin description is read for is its words, so a few specific hashtags are plenty, and the words they stand for belong in your sentences too. Paste a description above: the checker counts the hashtags, turns each one back into plain words, and flags the ones that don't belong on Pinterest.

How to use it

  1. Paste the pin's description, hashtags and all.
  2. Read each hashtag beside its words. #falldecor is "fall decor", #DIYHomeDecor is "diy home decor". A green mark means the words are already in your sentences.
  3. Fix what is flagged: a pile of tags, a tag used twice, follow-for-follow tags, tags made for TikTok or Instagram.
  4. Copy the words and work the main phrase into your first sentence.

Should you use hashtags on Pinterest?

You can, a few at a time. Pinterest's newest word of its own on hashtags is from 2017, and it gives no number. What it does rule out is padding a pin, in its Community Guidelines: Don’t use any other unscrupulous tactics to attempt to improperly influence distribution, clicks, or other metrics, including: buying or selling engagement, "stuffing" irrelevant keywords, generating inauthentic traffic, or redirecting existing Pins to new destinations. A long row of loosely related tags is the kind of padding that sentence is about. The words of your title and description are what a reader sees and what describe the pin, so the phrases belong there too.

  • Be specific. #sagegreenkitchen says more than #kitchen, and it is a phrase someone would type.
  • Write the words too. A reader on a phone sees sentences, not tags, and the checker shows which of your tags' words your sentences already use.
  • Leave other networks' tags out. #fyp and #foryou are TikTok's For You page, #instagood and #explorepage are Instagram's: other networks' feeds, not Pinterest's.

How many hashtags should a pin have?

Pinterest doesn't say: none of its help, business or newsroom pages we read gives a number, and you will find blogs recommending anything from three to twenty. We don't invent one. The checker flags more than five as a pile, the same writing advice our pin title & description checker gives, because past that a description stops reading like a sentence. Check the whole pin before you publish with the pin pre-publish checker.

Why the checker is not a hashtag generator

A generator that promised hashtags "that work" would have to know what people search on Pinterest, and how much. That is keyword data, and guessing it would be worse than useless. To see whether people search a phrase, check it in our Pinterest keyword checker, then use the phrase in your sentences and, if you like, as a hashtag.

FAQ

Do hashtags still work on Pinterest?
Pinterest added clickable hashtags in 2017: when a description includes one, Pinners can visit a feed of the pins that share it, the freshest first. Pinterest hasn't published a newer statement of its own that we could find. Hashtags still sit in descriptions, but the words of your title and description are what describe a pin, so treat hashtags as an extra, not the main thing.
How many hashtags should I use on Pinterest?
Pinterest publishes no number. We suggest a few specific ones and flag more than five as a pile, which is our writing advice, not a Pinterest rule. Most of the value is in using the same words in your sentences.
Where do hashtags go on a pin?
In the description. That is where Pinterest's 2017 announcement put them: "when you include hashtags in the description for a new Pin". Not in the title, and not in a comment.
Should I use #fyp or Instagram hashtags on Pinterest?
No. #fyp and #foryou belong to TikTok's For You page and #instagood to Instagram: other networks' feeds, not Pinterest's. Follow-for-follow tags ask for engagement in return, which Pinterest's guidelines rule out ("buying or selling engagement").
Is there a Pinterest hashtag generator?
Plenty of sites will invent hashtags for you, but without search data they are guesses. This checker works the other way: it reads the hashtags you have, turns them into words, and tells you what to fix. To check whether people search a phrase, use our keyword checker.