How to count in English

Enter a number and read it spelled out in English.

Language overview

West Germanic language of the Indo-European family, English is the official language of 53 countries, of which the USA, Great-Britain, Australia and Canada. It counts about 400 million speakers as first language.

English numbering rules

  • Digits from zero to nine are specific words, as well as numbers from ten to twelve.
  • From thirteen to nineteen, the numbers are formed from the digits three to nine, adding the “-teen” suffix at the end.
  • The tens are formed by adding the “-(t)y” suffix at the end of the digits, with the exception of twenty and forty.
  • From twenty-one to ninety-nine, the tens and units are joined with a hyphen.
  • For all the three-digit numbers, we state how many hundreds we have, we add the and word, then the tens and the digits (eg. two hundred and sixty-five [265]).
  • Hundred (100), thousand (1,000) and million (1,000,000) are always in singular (eg. six hundred and thirty-five [635]).
  • When directly added to hundred and thousand, we put and before tens and units (eg. seven hundred and three [703], or five thousand and two [5,002]).

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Numbers list

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
30 – thirty
40 – forty
50 – fifty
60 – sixty
70 – seventy
80 – eighty
90 – ninety
100 – one hundred
1,000 – one thousand
one million – one million
one billion – one billion
one trillion – one trillion

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