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Except when I'm writing tweets for Twitter, I never consider word length per se. But I often consider:

Rhythm -- How many syllables, which syllable is stressed, how those fit the surrounding sentence.
Sonority -- Hard and soft, consonants and vowels, lilt, how those fit the surrounding text.
Vocabulary -- Likelihood that the reader will grok the word without pause.
Concreteness -- Short words are often more concrete. Car vs vehicle vs conveyance.

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