# How to Spell Numbers

Spelling Decimal Numbers

In US English, the decimal point is read as the word point, and every digit after the point is read individually.

Rules

  1. Read the whole-number part normally (three, ninety-nine).
  2. Say point for the decimal separator.
  3. Read each digit after the point one at a time — not as a whole number.
  4. A leading zero is said as zero (US) or nought / oh in some dialects.
  5. Money is an exception: $3.14 is usually said as three dollars and fourteen cents, not three point one four dollars.

Examples

InputIn words
3.14three point one four
0.5zero point five
2.718two point seven one eight
99.99ninety-nine point nine nine
0.005zero point zero zero five
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