Number to Words in Lakhs and Crores

See any figure written the Indian way, with lakh, crore and arab, and the matching 12,34,567 digit grouping.

In words

1,23,45,678

One Crore Twenty-Three Lakh Forty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Seventy-Eight

How to use it

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Read the words, then press Copy words.

About this tool

In the Indian system the first group has three digits, and every group after that has two: thousand, lakh, crore, arab, kharab, neel, padma and shankh. So 12345678 is written 1,23,45,678.

This page handles up to 19 digits. For longer numbers use the main Number to Words Converter, which supports 36 digits with the international names.

Examples

12345678 is “one crore twenty-three lakh forty-five thousand six hundred seventy-eight”.
100000 is “one lakh”.
1000000000 is “one arab”.

Tips

Commas, spaces and a decimal point are fine, so you can paste a figure straight from a sheet.
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Numbers in Bangla or Hindi digits are understood too.

Questions and answers

How much is one crore?

One crore is 10,000,000 (ten million), or 100 lakh.

How much is one lakh?

One lakh is 100,000 (one hundred thousand).

What comes after crore?

Arab (100 crore, 1,000,000,000), then kharab, neel, padma and shankh.

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