Type a number to see it in words, or the amount in words for a cheque or invoice.
Choose Amount for rupees in words, or dollars, pounds and euros: 1,23,456.78 becomes one lakh twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-six rupees and seventy-eight paise. Cents, paise and pence are rounded to two places, and one rupee, one paisa and one penny stay singular.
Choose Cheque for the wording a bank expects. In India that is Rupees One Lakh Only, with Only at the end so nothing can be added after it. A US check writes the cents as a fraction, five thousand seventy-five and 62/100 dollars, for the same reason. Pounds and euros end with only as well.
Big numbers are spelled two ways. India groups digits as 1,00,000 and names them in lakhs and crores. Most other countries group them as 100,000 and count in thousands, millions and billions. Type 1,00,000 and the words come in lakhs; type 100,000 and they come in thousands. A plain 100000 follows the currency, and the Numbering dropdown above the fields switches between the two.
Put one number on each line and every line is spelled out, in the same order. Copy a column from Excel or Google Sheets, paste it here, and paste the words back next to it. Neither program can do this on its own without a macro. A line that is not a number is left as it was, so the rows still match.
Choose Ordinal for 1st, 2nd and 21st as first, second and twenty-first. Tick Use "and" for one hundred and five, the British and Indian way. US English, and most checks, leave it out.
One lakh, in the Indian system. In the international system the same number is one hundred thousand, and it is usually grouped as 100,000. Ten lakh (10,00,000) is one million, and one crore (1,00,00,000) is ten million. Type any of them in the box: the commas tell the converter which system you mean, and the Numbering setting switches between the two.
In India, start with Rupees, write the amount in words and end with Only: Rupees Twenty-Five Thousand Only. Paise come just before Only: Rupees Twenty-Five Thousand and Fifty Paise Only. On a US check the cents are written as a fraction, so 5,075.62 becomes Five thousand seventy-five and 62/100. Either way, start at the far left of the line and draw a line through any space left over, so nothing can be added. Choose Cheque above and the wording is done for you.
Both are correct. British and Indian English say one hundred and five, and American English usually says one hundred five. US checks leave the and out so that the only and is the one before the cents. Tick Use "and" if you want it.
Yes. Every number from twenty-one to ninety-nine that is made of two words takes a hyphen: twenty-one, forty-two, ninety-nine. Nothing else does, so it is two hundred, one thousand and three hundred forty-two, with a hyphen only inside the forty-two.
Excel and Google Sheets have no built-in function for it. Microsoft publishes a SpellNumber macro you can paste into the VBA editor, but the workbook then has to be saved with macros, and many offices block those. The quicker way is to copy the column, paste it here, and paste the words back next to the numbers. Each line becomes one line of words in the same order.
As a plain number, the digits after the point are read one by one: 3.14 is three point one four. As an amount, the decimals become cents, paise or pence and are rounded to two places, so 10.5 dollars is ten dollars and fifty cents.
Up to 36 digits, which reaches 999 decillion in the international system. In the Indian system everything above a crore is counted in crores, so a trillion is one lakh crore, the way Indian budgets and newspapers write it. The older names arab and kharab are rarely used in English and are not used here.
It depends on the style guide. AP style, used by most news sites, spells out one to nine and uses figures from 10 up. Chicago style, used in books, spells out zero to one hundred. Both spell out a number that starts a sentence, and both use figures for exact amounts of money, so cheques and invoices are the exception that writes amounts in words.