Amount in Words
Write money and numbers in words: checks, dollars, reais, cardinals and ordinals.
Convert to words
One thousand two hundred thirty-four and 50/100
- In wordsone thousand two hundred thirty-four dollars and fifty cents
- Figures and words$1,234.50 (one thousand two hundred thirty-four dollars and fifty cents)
- Check line with dollarsOne thousand two hundred thirty-four and 50/100 dollars
Why it is written this way
- US convention: no "and" inside the number. "And" only introduces the cents, which checks write as a fraction of 100.
Works up to 999 trillion, cents included. Portuguese uses the short scale: bilhão is 10⁹ and trilhão is 10¹².
Frequently asked questions
How do you write $1,234.50 on a check?
Write "One thousand two hundred thirty-four and 50/100" on the line that ends in the printed word DOLLARS, then draw a line through any empty space to the end so nothing can be added.
Do you write "and" in the dollar amount?
Only once, before the cents: "One hundred twenty and 00/100". Writing "one hundred and twenty" is common in British English, but on a US check "and" signals the decimal point, so leaving it out of the whole-dollar part avoids ambiguity.
How do you write a check with no cents?
Write the cents as 00/100, for example "Five hundred and 00/100". Some people write "and no/100"; both make it clear there are no cents to add.
What if the words and the figures on a check do not match?
Under the Uniform Commercial Code, section 3-114, words prevail over numbers. Brazil has the same rule for cheques in Law 7,357/1985, article 12. That is why the written line matters more than the box.
How are hyphens used in written numbers?
Hyphenate the compound numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine, including inside larger numbers: "three hundred forty-five thousand". Hundreds, thousands and millions are separated by spaces, not hyphens.