Number to Words Converter
Write a number out in Turkish and English words: the amount in words for cheques and invoices (lira and kuruş), decimals and ordinals. Up to one quadrillion.
- In figuresTRY 1,250.75
Every form
How it is calculated
On Turkish cheques, promissory notes and bills of exchange the amount is written in figures and in words; if they differ, the amount in words prevails under the Turkish Commercial Code (art. 676; art. 818 for cheques, art. 778 for promissory notes). That is why the words are written joined up, leaving no room to add anything. Invoices customarily repeat the total as “Yalnız: …” (“only”); the Tax Procedure Law (art. 230) does not list the amount in words among what an invoice must show. The currency is the Turkish lira, divided into 100 kuruş: Law No. 5083 named it the “New Turkish lira” and “new kuruş”, and Council of Ministers Decision 2007/11963, art. 1, dropped “new” from 1 January 2009.
1,234,567 → one million | two hundred and thirty-four thousand | five hundred and sixty-sevenThe number is split into groups of three from the right; each group is read as hundreds, tens and units and followed by its name (thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion).- Turkish reads 100 as “yüz” and 1,000 as “bin”, without “one”; 1,000,000 is “bir milyon”.
- Numbers of several words are written apart in ordinary text: “bin iki yüz elli bir” (TDK).
- In money matters and on cheques and bills the words are joined: 650.35 → altıyüzelliTL,otuzbeşkr. (TDK).
- Turkish reads decimals with “tam”: 15.2 → on beş tam onda iki (fifteen and two tenths). English reads the digits after “point”.
- English follows British usage: “one hundred and five”, hyphens from twenty-one to ninety-nine, short scale (a billion is 10⁹).
Example
₺1,250.75 in Turkish words is “bin iki yüz elli Türk lirası yetmiş beş kuruş”; on a cheque TDK writes “binikiyüzelliTL,yetmişbeşkr.”. In English: “one thousand two hundred and fifty Turkish lira and seventy-five kuruş”. The ordinal 1,250th is “bin iki yüz ellinci” in Turkish.
Frequently asked questions
Is 100 “yüz” or “bir yüz” in Turkish?
Just “yüz”, and 1,000 is just “bin”. But 1,000,000 is “bir milyon” and 1,000,000,000 “bir milyar”. 1,100 is “bin yüz”, 101,000 “yüz bir bin”.
How is the amount written in words on a Turkish cheque?
TDK has the words joined in money matters and on cheques and bills: “altıyüzelliTL,otuzbeşkr.” for ₺650.35. Leaving no gaps before or after stops anyone adding words. If figures and words differ, the words prevail.
How are decimals read?
Turkish uses “tam” and the denominator, as in TDK’s example: 15.2 is “on beş tam onda iki”, 5.26 “beş tam yüzde yirmi altı”. Everyday speech also says “virgül”; the tool gives both. English reads digit by digit after “point”.
How are Turkish ordinal suffixes chosen?
The suffix follows the last vowel of the last word, -ıncı/-inci/-uncu/-üncü, dropping its first vowel after a vowel: birinci, ikinci, altıncı, onuncu, yüzüncü; dört becomes dördüncü. In figures write 5. or 5’inci, never both (5.’inci).
Source
- TDK — Writing numbers (Turkish)
- Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 (arts. 676, 778, 818)
- Law No. 5083 on the currency of the Republic of Türkiye
- Council of Ministers Decision 2007/11963, arts. 1 and 3: “new” dropped from the currency’s name from 1 Jan 2009 (Official Gazette 05.05.2007, No. 26513)
- Tax Procedure Law No. 213, art. 230: what an invoice must show