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Children write number names on cheques, forms and exam papers all their lives, and spelling them is a skill of its own. This sheet gives numbers to write in words, or words to write in figures, using Indian number names: thousand, lakh and crore.
Tips for parents and teachers
- Spellings that need practice: forty (not fourty), ninety, eleven, twelve, fifteen, eighteen.
- Numbers from 21 to 99 take a hyphen: twenty-one, sixty-five.
- For big numbers, read period by period from the left: 4,52,318 is four lakh, fifty-two thousand, three hundred and eighteen.
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Common questions
How do you write 1,00,000 in words?
One lakh. In the Indian system, 1,00,000 is one lakh and 1,00,00,000 is one crore.