Number to words converter

What you get

• Words in the Indian system, with lakh and crore, as written in Indian schools, banks and newspapers.
• Words in the international system, with million and billion.
• Hindi words in Devanagari, and the number in Hindi numerals.
• Commas placed the Indian way (3, 2, 2) and the international way (3, 3, 3).
• The place value of every digit and the expanded form.
• The cheque form: "Rupees ... Only". Add paise after a point, for example 2500.50.
• The Roman numeral, for numbers up to 3999.

Charts

• 1 to 100 in words
• Hindi numbers 1 to 100
• Roman numerals 1 to 100
• Ordinal numbers
• Place value chart
• Roman numeral converter

Guides

• The Indian number system: lakhs, crores and where the commas go.
• The international number system: millions and billions.
• Lakh, crore, million, billion: the conversion table.
• Place value and face value.
• Expanded form.
• How to write numbers in words: rules and spelling.
• Writing an amount on a cheque.
• Roman numerals: the rules.
• How Hindi counting works.

Round amounts

Each of these has a page showing it in figures, in words, in Hindi and in every other unit.

• 1 Lakh 100 thousand
• 1 Million 10 lakh
• 1 Crore 10 million
• 10 Crore 100 million
• 1 Billion 100 crore
• 10 Billion 1,000 crore
• 100 Billion 10,000 crore
• 1 Trillion 1 lakh crore

Why two systems?

India names large numbers in lakhs and crores, and writes commas after three digits and then every two. Most other countries use millions and billions, with commas every three digits. A reader in India meets both every day: a salary in lakhs, a company result in millions of dollars. The number itself does not change, only how it is cut into groups and named. This site shows both, side by side, so that either can be read with ease.

Common questions