Number to Bangla Words

Writing 123456 as এক লাখ তেইশ হাজার চারশো ছাপ্পান্ন takes a moment to get right — the lakh and crore groups, the শো hundreds, the words for 23 and 56. This free number to Bangla words tool does it instantly, in your browser, for any whole number up to 999 crore.

It also handles the taka format used on cheques (“টাকা মাত্র”) and shows the number in Bangla numerals. Converting land values? Pair it with the Bangladeshi Land Converter, or rescue old documents with the Bijoy to Unicode Converter.

How the lakh / crore system works

Bangladesh counts in lakhs and crores, not millions and billions. The grouping is different from the Western system: after the first three digits, numbers group in pairs. So 1,00,000 is one lakh (a hundred thousand) and 1,00,00,000 is one crore (ten million). The words go with the groups — a number is read group by group, largest first, which is exactly what this tool does.

The units, at a glance

How a number is read

Take 123456. Split it Indian-style: 1,23,456 — one lakh, twenty-three thousand, four hundred fifty-six. In Bangla that is এক লাখ তেইশ হাজার চারশো ছাপ্পান্ন. Hundreds use শো (একশো, দুইশো, চারশো), and the tens and ones come from the fixed words for 1–99, like তেইশ for 23 and ছাপ্পান্ন for 56. There is no separate word for a bare hundred group — “চারশো” already means four hundred.

Taka format

Cheques, invoices and receipts in Bangladesh write amounts as words followed by “টাকা মাত্র” — “taka only”. Tick the taka option and the tool appends exactly that, so এক লাখ becomes এক লাখ টাকা মাত্র. The number is also shown in Bangla numerals (১,২৩,৪৫৬), which is how it appears on most Bangladeshi documents.