Number to Words Converter
Type any number to see it spelled out in English: US and British style, Indian lakh and crore wording, check (cheque) writing and more.
one thousand two hundred fifty
How to write numbers in words
- 0–19 have their own words: one, two… eleven, twelve… nineteen.
- Tens: twenty, thirty, forty (not "fourty"), fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety.
- 21–99 join the tens and ones with a hyphen: twenty-one, forty-five, ninety-nine.
- Hundreds: one hundred, two hundred five (US) or two hundred and five (UK).
- Larger numbers: split into groups of three digits and add thousand, million, billion, trillion: 3,450,012 = three million four hundred fifty thousand twelve.
- Decimals: read the digits after the point one by one: 12.05 = twelve point zero five.
Common numbers in words
| 1 | one |
| 5 | five |
| 11 | eleven |
| 15 | fifteen |
| 21 | twenty-one |
| 40 | forty |
| 99 | ninety-nine |
| 100 | one hundred |
| 101 | one hundred one |
| 115 | one hundred fifteen |
| 250 | two hundred fifty |
| 500 | five hundred |
| 999 | nine hundred ninety-nine |
| 1,000 | one thousand |
| 1,001 | one thousand one |
| 1,250 | one thousand two hundred fifty |
| 1,500 | one thousand five hundred |
| 1,999 | one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine |
| 2,000 | two thousand |
| 2,024 | two thousand twenty-four |
| 2,025 | two thousand twenty-five |
| 2,026 | two thousand twenty-six |
| 5,000 | five thousand |
| 10,000 | ten thousand |
| 12,500 | twelve thousand five hundred |
| 25,000 | twenty-five thousand |
| 50,000 | fifty thousand |
| 100,000 | one hundred thousand |
| 250,000 | two hundred fifty thousand |
| 1,000,000 | one million |
| 1,500,000 | one million five hundred thousand |
| 10,000,000 | ten million |
| 1,000,000,000 | one billion |
Numbers 1 to 100 in words
Frequently asked questions
Do you hyphenate numbers in words?
Yes. Compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine take a hyphen: forty-two, seventy-five. Other parts are separate words: one hundred five, three thousand.
Should I write "and" in numbers?
In American English, "and" is usually left out of whole numbers (one hundred five) and reserved for the decimal point on checks ("and 50/100"). In British English "and" goes before the last two digits: one hundred and five.
How do you write a number on a check?
Write the dollars in words, then "and", then the cents as a fraction of 100: $1,250.50 is "One thousand two hundred fifty and 50/100 dollars". Draw a line after the words so nothing can be added.
What comes after a trillion?
Quadrillion (10¹⁵), quintillion (10¹⁸), sextillion (10²¹) and so on, in the short scale used in English today.
What are a lakh and a crore?
In the Indian numbering system a lakh is 100,000 (written 1,00,000) and a crore is 10 million (1,00,00,000). So 2,500,000 is twenty-five lakh.