Decimal Number to Words Converter: Write Out 48.008 in Words, in (US) American English, Spelled Out in Different Letter Cases

48.008 written out in words form, in US American English, spelled out in lower and uppercase letters

Cardinal numbers are used to count how many objects are in a set: one, two, three, four, ... Cardinal numbers are natural numbers or positive integers. Decimal numbers are used to measure quantity, length, mass, etc. Example: $14.75 US Dollar, 49.25 meters, 28.45 kilograms, ...

Used letter cases: 'lowercase', 'UPPERCASE', 'Title Case', 'Sentence case', 'Start Case', 'camelCase', 'hyphen-case' and 'snake_case'.

Letter case 1 of 8
48.008 written out in words in:
lowercase
all lowercase letters:

forty-eight and eight thousandths

or, simpler:

forty-eight point zero zero eight

or, simpler:

forty-eight point oh oh eight


Letter case 2 of 8
48.008 spelled out in:
UPPERCASE
ALL UPPERCASE LETTERS:

FORTY-EIGHT AND EIGHT THOUSANDTHS

or, simpler:

FORTY-EIGHT POINT ZERO ZERO EIGHT

or, simpler:

FORTY-EIGHT POINT OH OH EIGHT


Letter case 3 of 8
48.008 Converted to words written in:
Title Case * (note below)
Capital Letters at the Beginning of the Main Words:

Forty-Eight and Eight Thousandths

or, simpler:

Forty-Eight Point Zero Zero Eight

or, simpler:

Forty-Eight Point Oh Oh Eight


Letter case 4 of 8
48.008 written out in words in:
Sentence case
Capital letter only at the beginning of the sentence:

Forty-eight and eight thousandths

or, simpler:

Forty-eight point zero zero eight

or, simpler:

Forty-eight point oh oh eight


Letter case 5 of 8
48.008 spelled out in:
Start Case
Capital Letters At The Beginning Of Each Word:

Forty-Eight And Eight Thousandths

~ or, simpler:

Forty-Eight Point Zero Zero Eight

~ or, even simpler:

Forty-Eight Point Oh Oh Eight


Letter case 6 of 8
48.008 Converted to words written in:
camelCase
first letter in lower case,
subsequent words' first letters in uppercase
spaces and punctuation removed:

fortyEightAndEightThousandths

~ or, simpler:

fortyEightPointZeroZeroEight

~ or, even simpler:

fortyEightPointOhOhEight

Letter case 7 of 8
48.008 written out in words in:
hyphen-case
punctuation - removed
spaces - replaced - by - hyphens:

forty-eight-and-eight-thousandths

~ or, simpler:

forty-eight-point-zero-zero-eight

~ or, even simpler:

forty-eight-point-oh-oh-eight


Letter case 8 of 8
48.008 spelled out in:
snake_case
punctuation _ removed
spaces _ replaced _ by _ underscores:

forty_eight_and_eight_thousandths

~ or, simpler:

forty_eight_point_zero_zero_eight

~ or, even simpler:

forty_eight_point_oh_oh_eight



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Notes on the Letter Cases used to write out in words the number above:

  • 1: Lowercase: only lowercase letters are used. Example: 'seventy-six and two tenths'.
  • 2: Uppercase: only uppercase letters are used. Example: 'SEVENTY-SIX AND TWO TENTHS'.
  • 3. Title Case: the first letters of the words are capitalized, except for certain short words, such as articles, conjunctions and short prepositions, 'a', 'an', 'the', 'and', 'but', 'for', 'at', 'by', 'to', 'or', 'in', etc. Example: 'Seventy-Six and Two Tenths'.
  • 4. Sentence case: only the first letter of the first word at the beginning of the sentence is capitalized. Example: 'Seventy-six and two tenths'.
  • 5. Start Case: the first letter of each word is capitalized without any exception. Example: 'Seventy-Six And Two Tenths'.
  • 6. Camel Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the first letter of each word is capitalized except for the very first letter in the series. Example: 'seventySixAndTwoTenths'.
  • 7. Hyphen Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the words are delimited by hyphen. Example: 'seventy-six-and-two-tenths'. Hyphen Case can be lowercase or uppercase.
  • 8. Snake Case: text has no spaces nor punctuation and the words are delimited by underscore. Example: 'seventy_six_and_two_tenths'. Snake Case can be lowercase or uppercase.

General Notes on Writing Out Numbers:

  • 1: It's correct to hyphenate all compound numbers from twenty-one (21) through ninety-nine (99). The hyphen is the minus sign, as in 'thirty-four' (34).
  • 2: In American English, unlike British English, when writing out natural numbers of three or more digits, the word 'and' is not used after 'hundred' or 'thousand': so it is 'one thousand two hundred thirty-four' and not 'one thousand two hundred and thirty-four'.
  • 3. Use commas when writing in digits numbers above 999: 1,234; 43,290, 1,000,000 etc.

How to write out numbers in words in (US) American English

1. How to convert natural numbers (positive integers) to (US) American English words, how to write them out (spell them out)?

1.1. To know how to write a number in words we must know the place value of each digit.

  • For example, the number 12,345 has a 1 in the ten thousands place, a 2 in the thousands place, a 3 in the hundreds place, a 4 in the tens place and a 5 in the ones place.
  • 12,345 in words =
  • = one ten thousands (10,000) + two thousands (2,000) + three hundreds (300) + four tens (40) + five ones
  • = ten thousands (10,000) + two thousands (2,000) + three hundreds (300) + four tens (40) + five ones
  • = ten thousand + two thousand + three hundred + forty + five
  • = (ten + two) thousand + three hundred + forty-five
  • = twelve thousand + three hundred + forty-five
  • = just remove the plus sign, +, and get the number written out in words
  • = twelve thousand three hundred forty-five.

2. When to write out numbers in words?

  • Spell out all numbers beginning a sentence, "Forty years ago,..." Not "40 years ago,...".
  • The Chicago Manual of Style calls for the numbers zero through one hundred to be written out - this would include forms like "one hundred million".
  • Using words to write short numbers makes your writing look clean and classy. In handwriting, words are easy to read and hard to mistake for each other. Writing longer numbers as words isn't as useful, but it's good practice while you're learning.
  • Otherwise, clarity should matter, for example when two numbers are used in a row allways spell one out: "They needed five 2-foot copper pipes to finish the job. There were 15 six-foot tall men on the basketball team roster.".
  • Be consistent within a sentence, phrase... Do not write "... one million people..." and "... 1,000,000 cars..."; stick to one or another, not both.

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