Six Hundred Thousand in Numbers

How to write 600,000 in words

The number 600,000 is written “six hundred thousand” in British English.

Because 600,000 is below one thousand it is a single group: name the hundreds and stop. That gives “six hundred thousand”.

In running text the number is normally lowercase: “the fee is six hundred thousand pounds”. At the start of a sentence, in a heading, or on a legal document it takes capitals: Six Hundred Thousand. Formal documents often give both forms together, for example “six hundred thousand (600,000)”, so that a reader can check one against the other.

3 words · 18 letters · 600,000 = 600 × 1,000 (one thousand)

Six Hundred Thousand in figures

To turn “six hundred thousand” back into digits, work group by group. Each group word (billion, million, thousand) marks a block of three digits. The result is 600,000, or 600000 without separators.

Commas go after every third digit counting from the right: 600,000. In Britain and the United States this is the standard grouping; in much of Europe the same number appears as 600.000, and international scientific style uses spaces: 600 000.

How to write 600,000 on a cheque

Banks read the amount in words as the legal amount, so it must be exact. Write the pounds in words, add the word pounds, and finish with only so that nothing can be added afterwards.

• With pence: add the pence after the pounds – “Six hundred thousand pounds and fifty pence only” for £600,000.50 – or write the pence as a fraction, “Six hundred thousand pounds 50/100”.
• US check: “Six hundred thousand and 00/100 dollars”. American cheques drop the “and” after the hundreds and put it before the cents.
• Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: the currency word comes first and the amount is counted in lakh and crore – “Taka six lakh only”, with the figure written Tk. 6,00,000/=.

Read the full guide to writing a UK cheque or the guide to writing a cheque in Bangladesh for the layout, the date, and what to do if the words and figures disagree.

600,000 in British and American English

600,000 is spelled exactly the same way – “six hundred thousand” – in British and American English. The two varieties only differ when a number contains hundreds followed by tens or units, where British English adds “and”. Read more in our guide to British vs American English numbers.

600,000 in lakh and crore (India, Bangladesh and Pakistan)

In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, large numbers are grouped differently. After the first thousand the digits are grouped in twos, and the units are lakh (100,000) and crore (10,000,000). So 600,000 becomes 6,00,000, read as “six lakh” – or simply 6 lakh.

On an Indian cheque or invoice the amount reads “Rupees six lakh only”; in Bangladesh it is “Taka six lakh only”. Our lakh and crore conversion guide explains the system in full.

600,000 in Bangla (বাংলায় ৬,০০,০০০)

In Bangla, 600,000 is written ৬,০০,০০০ using Bengali digits, and in words it is ছয় লাখ. Bangla has its own word for every number from one to ninety-nine, and above that it counts in হাজার (thousand), লাখ (lakh) and কোটি (crore), the same grouping used across Bangladesh and India.

On a cheque or invoice written in Bangla the amount reads ছয় লাখ টাকা মাত্র (“ছয় লাখ taka only”). In English on the same cheque it is Taka six lakh only – see How to write a cheque in Bangladesh.

Common mistakes when writing 600,000

• Pluralising the group words. It is hundred, thousand, never “hundreds”, “thousands” or “millions” after a number.
• Using shorthand in formal documents. 600k is fine in a message, but a cheque or contract needs six hundred thousand or 600,000.
• Miscounting the zeros. 600,000 has 6 digits. Check the commas: every group between commas should have exactly three digits.

Other ways to write 600,000

Half of 600,000 is 300,000 (three hundred thousand). Double 600,000 is 1,200,000 (one million two hundred thousand).