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Spelling of Numbers

Remember to hyphenate all compound numbers (example: forty-eight).
 

1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
12 twelve
13 thirteen
14 fourteen
15 fifteen
16 sixteen
17 seventeen
18 eighteen
19 nineteen
20 twenty
21 twenty-one
30 thirty
40 forty
50 fifty
60 sixty
70 seventy
80 eighty
90 ninety
100 hundred
200 two hundred

 

1,000 one thousand
1,000,000 one million
1,000,000,000 one billion
1,000,000,000,000 one trillion

Add “th” to the end of a number to show it is a fraction or decimal.

Examples:

  • Write 3 in words: three
  • Write 97 in words: ninety-seven
  • Write 264, 073, 458 in words: two hundred sixty-four million seventy-three thousand four hundred fifty-eight

Reference:

LRNSK218 (ACASK 75) Handout, M. Tomes, August 30, 1999

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