Numbers in English

Number to Words Converter

Type any number to see it spelled out in English — cardinal, ordinal and currency forms, with audio. Everything runs in your browser.

Popular numbers

21 30 100 150 300 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000

Basic rules

Hyphenate 21–99: twenty-one, ninety-nine
UK English adds "and" after hundreds: one hundred and one
Group by thousands: thousand → million → billion
Years are usually read in pairs: 1998 = nineteen ninety-eight (year guide)
Ordinals: 21st = twenty-first (ordinal list)