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Amount in words

Type an amount; get it in words the Indian way, in lakh and crore, in English, Hindi or Tamil, ready for a cheque.

About this tool

Cheques and invoices in India write amounts with lakh and crore: 1,25,000 is one lakh twenty-five thousand. The words end with "only" so nothing can be added after them.

Questions

How do I write 1,50,000 on a cheque?

One lakh fifty thousand rupees only.

What about paise?

Type them after a decimal point: 2500.50 becomes two thousand five hundred rupees and fifty paise only.

Developers: this page runs on the Number to words API (GET /v1/words/{number}). Free, open source, no key for most of it.