Numbers in Words in English

We all know that mathematics is all about numbers. Every concept/chapter we learn in Mathematics from our childhood has numbers included in it. Earlier, we use Roman numerals to represent the numbers. Numbers such as 1-I, 2-II, 3-III, 4-IV, and so on. But in the current system, we spell out numbers in the English language. Therefore, in this article, we will learn how to convert the numbers into words in the English language since English is the most common language used across the world, specifically for education.

Now let’s see how numbers are in the word forms in the English Language. For example, 100 is written as One hundred, 1000 is written as One thousand, 100000 is written as One Lakh etc. with the spelling. Similarly, each number is written in the form of words based on the place value system, such as ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on. 

There are different types of numbers that students can learn, natural numbers, whole numbers, rational numbers, etc. All the mentioned numbers are represented in the form of words with the help of a place value and face value form.

As mentioned, any number can be written in the form of words with the help of place value. Now let’s see what place value is.  

Place value is the value of every digit in a number. Example, 5 in 530 represents 5 hundred, or 500; 3 represents Thirty. Similarly, 5 in 5,300 represents 5 thousand, or 5,000; 3 represents 3 hundred or 300

Place value is represented by one’s place, tens place, hundred places, thousand place, lakh place, etc. depends upon the number of digits in a number.

The place value in one’s place has numbers from 1 to 9. They are written in words as, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine.

The number starts at tens place is 10 and move from 11 to 19. Ten is the least number in the tens place. The numbers are written in tens place in words as, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. 

After 19 the number next comes is 20, In the number 20 – “2” lies in the tens place, then the numbers follow the pattern 21,22…29. and are written in words as twenty-one, twenty two, etc.

 Similarly, tens place is filled with the numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and are read as thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety and so on. As shown above for “20 -Twenty” the preceding numbers follow the pattern 31,32,33, …etc. and are written in words as thirty-one, thirty-two, etc.

Now let’s see how to write any number in words with example.

Write 65 in words.

Solution: In number 65, one’s place is occupied with 5, so there are 5 ones, and tens place is also occupied with 6, so there are 6 tens. So 6 tens and 5 ones are equal to 65. Or we can write, 65 as ‘Sixty -Five’ in words.

Below are the list of numbers in words from 1 – 100

0	Zero
1	One	34	Thirty-four	67	Sixty-seven
2	Two	35	Thirty-five	68	Sixty-eight
3	Three	36	Thirty-six	69	Sixty-nine
4	Four	37	Thirty-seven	70	Seventy
5	Five	38	Thirty-eight	71	Seventy-one
6	Six	39	Thirty-nine	72	Seventy-two
7	Seven	40	Forty	73	Seventy-three
8	Eight	41	Forty-one	74	Seventy-four
9	Nine	42	Forty-two	75	Seventy-five
10	Ten	43	Forty-three	76	Seventy-six
11	Eleven	44	Forty-four	77	Seventy-seven
12	Twelve	45	Forty-five	78	Seventy-eight
13	Thirteen	46	Forty-six	79	Seventy-nine
14	Fourteen	47	Forty-seven	80	Eighty
15	Fifteen	48	Forty-eight	81	Eighty-one
16	Sixteen	49	Forty-nine	82	Eighty-two
17	Seventeen	50	Fifty	83	Eighty-three
18	Eighteen	51	Fifty-one	84	Eighty-four
19	Nineteen	52	Fifty-two	85	Eighty-five
20	Twenty	53	Fifty-three	86	Eighty-six
21	Twenty-one	54	Fifty-four	87	Eighty-seven
22	Twenty-two	55	Fifty-five	88	Eighty-eight
23	Twenty-three	56	Fifty-six	89	Eighty-nine
24	Twenty-four	57	Fifty-seven	90	Ninety
25	Twenty-five	58	Fifty-eight	91	Ninety-One
26	Twenty-six	59	Fifty-nine	92	Ninety-two
27	Twenty-seven	60	Sixty	93	Ninety-three
28	Twenty-eight	61	Sixty-one	94	Ninety-four
29	Twenty-nine	62	Sixty-two	95	Ninety-five
30	Thirty	63	Sixty-three	96	Ninety-six
31	Thirty-one	64	Sixty-four	97	Ninety-seven
32	Thirty-two	65	Sixty-five	98	Ninety-eight
33	Thirty-three	66	Sixty-six	99	Ninety-nine
				100	Hundred

Now lets see numbers in words from 101 to 1000

Previously we have seen how to write numbers from 1 to 100. In the above section, we learned how to write numbers from 1 to 100, in words. Now we see how to write numbers after 100

After 100, the numbers follow pattern 101, 102, 103…by using the place value we can read the numbers as one-hundred and one, one-hundred and two, and so on up to 999-9 in one’s place, 9 in the tens place and 9 in the hundreds place and read as nine hundred and ninety-nine.

100	One Hundred	600	Six Hundred
101	One Hundred and One	601	Six Hundred and One
109	One Hundred and Nine	609	Six Hundred and Nine
200	Two Hundred	700	Seven Hundred
201	Two Hundred and One	701	Seven Hundred and One
209	Two Hundred and Nine	709	Seven Hundred and Nine
300	Three Hundred	800	Eight Hundred
301	Three Hundred and One	801	Eight Hundred and One
309	Three Hundred and Nine	809	Eight Hundred and Nine
400	Four Hundred	899	Eight Hundred and Ninety Nine
401	Four Hundred and One	900	Nine Hundred
409	Four Hundred and Nine	901	Nine Hundred and One
500	Five Hundred	909	Nine Hundred and Nine
501	Five Hundred and One	999	Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine
509	Five Hundred and Nine	1000	One Thousand

We need to follow a similar pattern for thousands also as mentioned with place value. For example, in 1000 “1” is in a thousand places. Similarly, the number 2,3,4,..9 represents the number of thousands.

123 One Hundred and Twenty Three

189 One Hundred and Eighty Nine

256 Two Hundred and Fifty Six

294 Two Hundred and Ninety Four

333 Three Hundred and Thirty Three

369 Three Hundred and Sixty Nine

452 Four Hundred and Fifty Two

492 Four Hundred and Ninety Two

543 Five Hundred and Forty Three

588 Five Hundred and Eighty Eight

654 Six Hundred and Fifty Four

691 Six Hundred and Ninety One

710 Seven Hundred and Ten

744 Seven Hundred and Forty Four

888 Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight

873 Eight Hundred and Seventy Three

926 Nine Hundred and Twenty Six

985 Nine Hundred and Eighty Five

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