diff --git a/internal/check-universal-props.mjs b/internal/check-universal-props.mjs
index 681dfb720..9a19779f1 100644
--- a/internal/check-universal-props.mjs
+++ b/internal/check-universal-props.mjs
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ const RULES = [
           && /(?:toLocaleString|NumberFormat|DateTimeFormat)\s*\(\s*`[^`]*\$\{/.test(before)
         if (!isFallback) out.push(m.index)
       }
+      // ★ THE NAMED CONSTANT COUNTS TOO, or folding the literal into one module LOOKS like fixing it.
+      // library/utils/formatCount.js now holds the fleet's en-US decision and calls
+      // toLocaleString(COUNT_LOCALE) — no literal — so the pattern above went quiet and 8 of the
+      // tree's 13 warns vanished with the BEHAVIOUR unchanged. That is the same false-green as a
+      // precondition that skips the file under test: the audit stopped seeing a decision still in
+      // force. One site, attributed to every bundle that imports it, is what "held in one place"
+      // should read as in the matrix — not zero.
+      const constRe = /COUNT_LOCALE\s*=\s*['"]en(?:-US)?['"]/g
+      while ((m = constRe.exec(src))) out.push(m.index)
       return out
     } },
   // A whole-file rule: the fetch and the helper need not be on the same line, only in the same file.