How to Write Numbers in words?

The rules to write the numbers in words are discussed here. To write any number in the form of words, we have to check the place value. Let us learn this by observing the below steps.

• The place value of one’s, a number from 1 to 9 is written in words as, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine.
• The least number which is at tens place is 10, which is written in words as ten.
• The numbers from 11 to 19 are written in words as, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. And the next number is twenty.
• After twenty, the numbers follow the pattern in such a way that they are written in words as thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety and so on.
• The preceding numbers are linked with these words and mentioned from one to nine. For example, twenty-one, twenty-two, etc.

For example, if we have to write Rs.40,000 in words, then it will be written as:

Rs.40,000 – Forty thousand rupees only