For the first time, a search for the rare decay of the (W) boson to three charged pions has been performed. Proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of (77.3\text{}\text{}{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}), have been analyzed. No significant excess is observed above the background expectation. An upper limit of (1.01×{10}^{-6}) is set at 95% confidence level on the branching fraction of the (W) boson to three charged pions. This provides a strong motivation for theoretical calculations of this branching fraction.