How To Spell Numbers

Nineteen eighty three was the year he was born.

How to spell numbers. Check out the special tips for troublesome number words below the chart. 4 is in the tens place so this is actually 40. How do you spell 8th here in one simple chart we provide all the information you ll need. One two three four five six. To spell numbers use a hyphen to separate the words in double digit numbers such as twenty five or sixty two try to avoid spelling out numbers larger than 99 unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.

42 is written with two numbers. The associated press stylebook recommends spelling out the numbers zero through nine and using numerals thereafter until one million is reached. Some languages don t support currency. One thousand two hundred thirty four. It will be written just as it sounds.

However very large numbers such as 1 000 000 should be written as one million. The following table gives the number words from 1 to 20. Here are four examples of how to write numbers above 999 999 in ap style. Spelling numbers can be tricky especially when it comes to certain numbers and number words. Write this as forty.

If your number is 1 234 say it out loud. Combine words to write more numbers. 1983 was the year he was born. Let s see how it works for the number 42. Scroll down the page for songs rhymes and examples to help you learn the number words.

A rule of thumb is to write the numbers just as they sound. Now you can write any number from 1 to 100. For example seventeen high school students won the community service award. A printable chart for young learners of english showing numbers from one to a hundred with digits and words. Write the two parts together.