Type a number to see it written in words. Choose thousands and millions or lakh and crore, or pick a currency to get the exact wording for a cheque.
Each group of digits is read in turn: hundreds, then thousands, millions and billions, or in South Asia thousands, lakh (100,000) and crore (10,000,000). British usage adds “and” before the last part under one hundred, so 105 is “one hundred and five”.
Cheque wording capitalises each word, writes the minor unit (paisa, cents, pence) after “and” and ends with “Only”, so nothing can be added afterwards. Amounts are rounded to two decimal places first.
The box on the Convert page answers the same questions as you type, for example “120000 in words”, “1994 in roman”, “255 in binary” or “0.375 as a fraction”.
| Number | International | Lakh and crore |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | five | five |
| 21 | twenty-one | twenty-one |
| 105 | one hundred and five | one hundred and five |
| 1,000 | one thousand | one thousand |
| 1,234 | one thousand two hundred and thirty-four | one thousand two hundred and thirty-four |
| 15,000 | fifteen thousand | fifteen thousand |
| 100,000 | one hundred thousand | one lakh |
| 120,000 | one hundred and twenty thousand | one lakh twenty thousand |
| 1,500,000 | one million five hundred thousand | fifteen lakh |
| 10,000,000 | ten million | one crore |
| 25,000,000 | twenty-five million | two crore fifty lakh |
| 1,000,000,000 | one billion | one hundred crore |
| Amount | On the cheque |
|---|---|
| PKR 120,000 | Rupees One Lakh Twenty Thousand Only |
| INR 2,500.75 | Rupees Two Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Paise Only |
| USD 1,234.56 | One Thousand Two Hundred Thirty-Four Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents Only |
| GBP 99.99 | Ninety-Nine Pounds and Ninety-Nine Pence Only |
| AED 150,000 | One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dirhams Only |
Write the amount in words with each main word capitalised, put the minor unit (paisa, cents or pence) after “and”, and end with “Only” so nothing can be added. In Pakistan and India the amount usually starts with “Rupees” and uses lakh and crore, so Rs 1,20,000 is “Rupees One Lakh Twenty Thousand Only”.
A lakh is 100,000 and a crore is 10,000,000, or 100 lakh. A million is 1,000,000, so 10 lakh make a million and a crore is ten million.
British English puts “and” before the last part of a number, as in one hundred and five; American English usually leaves it out. Cheque wording here leaves it out except before the minor unit.