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About this tool
Number to Words Converter
Number to Words converts numbers into written English, in standard, currency and ordinal formats.
How to use it
- Enter a number.
- Choose standard, currency or ordinal.
- Copy the written form.
Short scale and long scale
English-speaking countries use the short scale, where a billion is a thousand million. Much of continental Europe historically used the long scale, where a billion is a million million and the thousand-million is a milliard. The difference is a factor of a thousand and it is not hypothetical.
Currency format has its own conventions, most notably writing cents as a fraction over 100 on cheques, which exists specifically to make alteration harder.
When it helps
- Writing an amount on a cheque.
- Producing the written form for a contract or a legal document.
- Generating ordinals for dates and rankings.
- Checking how a large number is properly written.
Common mistakes
- Assuming billion means the same thing everywhere. In international contexts it is safer to write the figure.
- Forgetting the hyphens. Twenty-one and thirty-five are hyphenated; one hundred is not.
- Using and inconsistently. British English writes one hundred and one, American English usually omits the and.
