# How to Spell Numbers

How to spell 21

21 is spelled twenty-one in English.

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Quick reference

US English (Cardinal)twenty-one
Ordinal (21st)twenty-first
On a US CheckTwenty-one and 00/100 dollars
Roman NumeralXXI
Binary / Hexadecimal10101β‚‚ Β· 0x15

How it's built

  1. 2 in the tens place = twenty
  2. 1 in the ones place = one

On a check

To write $21.00 on a check, the words line reads:

Twenty-one and 00/100

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