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Numbers 1 to 100 in Words: Spelling Chart
A complete chart of numbers 1 to 100 spelled out in English, with the hyphen rule, tricky spellings like forty and ninety, and printable-friendly tables.
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Every number in English is made from the words for one to nineteen, the tens, and a handful of group words. Learn these hundred and you can write any figure. Tap a number to open its own page with cheque wording, ordinal form and more.
Numbers 1 to 100 in words
- 1one
- 2two
- 3three
- 4four
- 5five
- 6six
- 7seven
- 8eight
- 9nine
- 10ten
- 11eleven
- 12twelve
- 13thirteen
- 14fourteen
- 15fifteen
- 16sixteen
- 17seventeen
- 18eighteen
- 19nineteen
- 20twenty
- 21twenty-one
- 22twenty-two
- 23twenty-three
- 24twenty-four
- 25twenty-five
- 26twenty-six
- 27twenty-seven
- 28twenty-eight
- 29twenty-nine
- 30thirty
- 31thirty-one
- 32thirty-two
- 33thirty-three
- 34thirty-four
- 35thirty-five
- 36thirty-six
- 37thirty-seven
- 38thirty-eight
- 39thirty-nine
- 40forty
- 41forty-one
- 42forty-two
- 43forty-three
- 44forty-four
- 45forty-five
- 46forty-six
- 47forty-seven
- 48forty-eight
- 49forty-nine
- 50fifty
- 51fifty-one
- 52fifty-two
- 53fifty-three
- 54fifty-four
- 55fifty-five
- 56fifty-six
- 57fifty-seven
- 58fifty-eight
- 59fifty-nine
- 60sixty
- 61sixty-one
- 62sixty-two
- 63sixty-three
- 64sixty-four
- 65sixty-five
- 66sixty-six
- 67sixty-seven
- 68sixty-eight
- 69sixty-nine
- 70seventy
- 71seventy-one
- 72seventy-two
- 73seventy-three
- 74seventy-four
- 75seventy-five
- 76seventy-six
- 77seventy-seven
- 78seventy-eight
- 79seventy-nine
- 80eighty
- 81eighty-one
- 82eighty-two
- 83eighty-three
- 84eighty-four
- 85eighty-five
- 86eighty-six
- 87eighty-seven
- 88eighty-eight
- 89eighty-nine
- 90ninety
- 91ninety-one
- 92ninety-two
- 93ninety-three
- 94ninety-four
- 95ninety-five
- 96ninety-six
- 97ninety-seven
- 98ninety-eight
- 99ninety-nine
- 100one hundred
How the pattern works
- 1–12 are all individual words: one, two, three … ten, eleven, twelve.
- 13–19 end in -teen: thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. Notice thir- and fif- rather than three- and five-.
- 20–90 end in -ty: twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety. Again twen-, thir-, for- and fif- are irregular.
- 21–99 join a tens word and a units word with a hyphen: twenty-one, thirty-eight, ninety-nine.
- 100 is one hundred (or a hundred in speech).
Spellings people get wrong
| Number | Correct | Common misspelling |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | forty | fourty |
| 14 | fourteen | forteen |
| 90 | ninety | ninty |
| 19 | nineteen | ninteen |
| 80 | eighty | eightty |
| 18 | eighteen | eightteen |
| 12 | twelve | twelv |
| 15 | fifteen | fiveteen |
| 50 | fifty | fivety |
| 9 | nine | nien |
Building bigger numbers
Put a units word in front of hundred and you have the hundreds: three hundred. Add “and” and any number from the chart: three hundred and seventy-five. Put any number up to 999 in front of thousand, million or billion and you can write anything up to 999,999,999,999. The rules are set out in Rules for writing numbers in words and How to write large numbers in words.
Frequently asked questions
How do you spell 40?
Forty – f, o, r, t, y. There is no "u", even though four and fourteen have one.
How do you spell 90?
Ninety – with an "e" in the middle. "Ninty" is a common misspelling.
Is it "twenty one" or "twenty-one"?
Twenty-one, with a hyphen. All compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine are hyphenated in British and American English.
Is 100 "one hundred" or "a hundred"?
Both are correct. "One hundred" is the formal form used on cheques and in documents; "a hundred" is conversational.