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Numbers by First Appearance of Letters

For each letter of the alphabet, name the first whole number (starting from zero) that contains that letter when spelled out.
Excluding the word "and"
Answers must be spelled out
Some of the numbers are very large
Quiz by kiwirage
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Last updated: November 21, 2017
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First submittedOctober 9, 2017
Times taken32,151
Average score62.5%
Rating4.34
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Letter
Number
A
Thousand
B
Billion
C
Octillion
D
Hundred
E
Zero
F
Four
G
Eight
H
Three
I
Five
Letter
Number
J
-
K
-
L
Eleven
M
Million
N
One
O
Zero
P
Septillion
Q
Quadrillion
R
Zero
Letter
Number
S
Six
T
Two
U
Four
V
Five
W
Two
X
Six
Y
Twenty
Z
Zero
scambigol
+29
Level 76
Oct 9, 2017
wow! both fun and interesting!
tshalla
+20
Level 75
Aug 5, 2020
I don't think I've ever done one of these quizzes where my strategy had such a big impact. I went through, letter by letter, and did terribly. Then, I tried again, this time filling in z e r and o, then n, then t w, and so on - and finished easily. Not sure I'd have done that without already seeing the answers for c and p though.
Apprentice03
+4
Level 61
Aug 5, 2020
I did your seconed strategy as well and got twenty questions right :-)!
Eutychus
+6
Level 90
Oct 9, 2017
Reminds me of the classic Bare Naked Ladies song- "If I had an octillion dollars".
DonTheLamplighter
+94
Level 84
Nov 21, 2017
Is that the Zimbabwe version?
TheJetpunker
+3
Level 56
Dec 13, 2017
hahahaha I actually started crying when I read this
kgoodsir
+1
Level 50
Dec 14, 2017
I don't get the reference.
loganite
+11
Level 88
Dec 15, 2017
kgoodsir, Zimbabwe used to use the Zimbabwean dollar as currency, but discontinued using it after a period of hyperinflation. When they changed currencies, the exchange rate was one US dollar to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Mar 31, 2019
That would still be almost 30 billion US dollars, 30,000 times more than the song's million.
ing
+1
Level 72
Aug 5, 2020
It's headed that way again.
Algernon
+16
Level 72
Nov 21, 2017
Misread this and was trying to work out the first whole number that started with each letter. Gave up in frustration after 90 seconds. Oops.
potatopierogi
+1
Level 68
Dec 13, 2017
same here. i got five correct.
Arp2600
+6
Level 86
Nov 22, 2017
I don't agree with excluding "and". It's part of the spelling...
Tramp
+2
Level 76
Nov 22, 2017
Yeah, I wasted a lot of time with A thinking about "and"

Fun quiz though

thisisnotanaccount1234567
+6
Level 46
Nov 24, 2017
but 1285, for instance, is not "One Thousand, two hundred and eighty five" in the correct sense, most people will say "and", but the correct way excludes it.
OfficerDibble
+3
Level 80
Dec 13, 2017
Both ways are correct; there's different usage by country (I think the US is the only place where the 'and' is usually omitted).
rocknrollgirl59
+1
Level 35
Dec 14, 2017
Why is 'and' not part of the word though, especially if people add the 'and' when they say it (except some Americans). The French use 'et un' for their numbers '21', '31', '41', '51' and '61', and for '71' they use 'et onze'... it's part of the written format. Back in the olden days of cheques (which can still be used today if people so choose', you have to write out the whole number, including the 'and's for the bank, who deal with numbers every single day. Nothing against you personally, by the way, just getting the point across to those making the same point as you and yours is the first...
kiwirage
+3
Level 62
Dec 14, 2017
Whether or not using "and" is 'correct' or 'incorrect', it's ultimately somewhat trivial in this quiz as it only effects the answer to Letter A. Choosing to exclude 'and' means that it takes just a little more thinking to get the answer :-)
Quizzer6794
+6
Level 65
Feb 20, 2018
Anyway, the answer is one thousAND
TWM03
+5
Level 70
Aug 10, 2018
In the UK the "correct" way is definitely to use "and". Excluding the word is fine, but I think people saying it is "incorrect" to include "and" are definitely wrong.
CapitalAce
+1
Level 58
Aug 5, 2020
In Canada when we are writing cheques, we are supposed to omit the and in numbers. If you put it in, fine, but officially you are not supposed to.
mightythor
+3
Level 66
Aug 5, 2020
"And" in numbers is only for separating fractions.
buck1017
+6
Level 77
Dec 4, 2017
right..."and" is NOT part of the spelling. In fact, it's a common trivia question "What is the first number to contain the letter "A" and most people will say one hundred AND one, but it's One Thousand because no number contains the word "and"
TWM03
+3
Level 70
Aug 10, 2018
I wouldn't trust your trivia set to tell you that including the word "and" in a number is incorrect.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Jan 30, 2021
The word "and" does not belong in the sentence "Cyprus is in Europe".
redsplat
+2
Level 74
Nov 22, 2017
Cool quiz!
KoljiVriVoda
+1
Level 77
Nov 22, 2017
Fun :)
halpie
+3
Level 77
Nov 22, 2017
Love it. And find it funny that I got quadrillion but missed six.
fuanacdc
+1
Level 84
Sep 4, 2019
Got Septillion but missed Eight...
solarplexus
+1
Level 64
Nov 29, 2020
I tried googol before guessing eight, ha
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Nov 22, 2017
I already made the same quiz and mine was made several months earlier - how come this was featured?
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Nov 24, 2017
I'm guessing because including "and", as you did, is not technically correct.
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Aug 10, 2018
What technicality makes it incorrect?
geographyisthebestsubject
+2
Level 61
Nov 22, 2017
Creative.
HenryDangerRules
+1
Level 8
Nov 22, 2017
I actually got septillion right I just guessed woohoo! ;p
roleybob
+1
Level 75
Nov 23, 2017
N, U, G, H and T should come under zero, possibly some other letters as well for other synonyms.

It would probably be better to use numbers starting from 1 instead?

Maladroit
+5
Level 51
Dec 13, 2017
Nought is slang, same as goose-egg, love, zilch, zip, none, nada, null, naught, nil, and many, many, many other terms for zero.
Malbaby
+2
Level 71
Dec 15, 2017
Nought (or Naught) is not really slang, it means nothing and can be used as a number. It is not a slang term for zero but a word for nothing...... as in "All his worry was for nought" or "It was all for naught" etc.
roleybob
+3
Level 75
Jan 29, 2019
Yes exactly - nought is not slang:

nought

Dictionary result for nought

/nɔːt/

noun

British

noun: nought; plural noun: noughts

1.

the digit 0.

synonyms: nil, zero, 0; More

love;

a duck;

datedcipher

"Richard Scott went for nought, caught behind by Bishop"

pronoun

pronoun: nought

1.

variant spelling of naught.

synonyms: nothing, nothing at all, naught; More

samiamco
+1
Level 69
Nov 24, 2017
Great quiz, kiwi!!
WT2008
+3
Level 77
Nov 26, 2017
What about roman numerals? The answer for C should be 100 :)
Djilas
+2
Level 82
Dec 13, 2017
when spelled out
rg1227
+3
Level 68
Dec 13, 2017
He was being sarcastic. Notice the :) at the very end.
redhead24
+1
Level 62
Dec 13, 2017
anybody just counting in their head and then immediately switching to Bank Account.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 89
Dec 13, 2017
I wonder how many people on this site have actually heard that song.
Soph1
+1
Level 49
Dec 13, 2017
Interesting quiz!
BMDragon
+2
Level 82
Dec 14, 2017
Doesn't pentillion come before septillion for P?
Shamooski19
+1
Level 65
May 17, 2023
It's not pentillion, it's quintillion.
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Dec 15, 2017
Good quiz, had to rush and still didn't make it.
ILikeQuizes
+6
Level 63
Dec 23, 2017
For "g" all I could think of was googol. Eight seams obvious in retrospect.
ddddan
+3
Level 81
Aug 5, 2020
Don't forget gazillion
snowfall512
+1
Level 24
May 6, 2018
Deceptively difficult tbh.
TenThousand
+1
Level 76
May 21, 2018
Just discovered this quiz - pretty cool - and the stats page, showing the % of people getting each amount out of 24, has thrown up quite an unusual distribution of scores.
ed1969
+1
Level 72
Oct 29, 2018
Very interesting idea for a quiz.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Mar 31, 2019
Darn you, octillion. C seemed like too common a letter to go that far forward so I just skipped it thinking I was missing something.
GuestQuizzer
+1
Level 22
Oct 8, 2019
100%. Surprisingly.......................... cause Math is not my subject. {Ohhh wait, English is....)
Shamooski19
+1
Level 65
May 17, 2023
For a person whose subject is English, there are quite a few grammatical, punctuational, capitalization, and structural errors.
Marvel072506
+1
Level 43
Mar 15, 2020
I missed two... I can never come back from this.
kaislash
+2
Level 54
Jul 9, 2020
did you miss two answers or "two" answers?
kaislash
+1
Level 54
Jul 9, 2020
got septillion with 5 seconds left
TheLocalMilkMan
+1
Level 44
Aug 5, 2020
I would like to thank my friend [REDACTED] for telling me most of these
ciaranracing
+1
Level 41
Aug 5, 2020
this quiz was awesome. nice idea and very unique
loganite
+1
Level 88
Aug 5, 2020
Whole numbers...dang it! I totally tried pi for "p" ;)
Eigengrau
+1
Level 60
Aug 5, 2020
Only missed Septillion in the first try.
JamesC79
+1
Level 55
Aug 5, 2020
P occures in pentillion which is smaller than septillion
QRU
+2
Level 74
Aug 5, 2020
The term for "pentillion" is Quintillion! Latin, not greek!
Chris19
+1
Level 51
Aug 5, 2020
Enjoyed this very much. Well, after I had stopped staring at the letter "A" and continued with the slightly easier ones :-)
Vwheeler77
+2
Level 40
Aug 5, 2020
This may sound ridiculous, but I'm convinced the game 'cookie clicker' is what enabled me to get all of them first try... Finally a use for knowing alot of the '-illions'.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Aug 6, 2020
Surprised to have got them all!
Jared0309
+1
Level 76
Aug 9, 2020
It the pengõ all over again
HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Aug 10, 2020
Somehow I got everything except G
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jan 30, 2021
Jazillion?
Shamooski19
+1
Level 65
May 17, 2023
Kajillion? It includes both K and J.
RobNobody
+1
Level 76
Feb 10, 2021
You know, considering I got the right answer for "E," "R," and "O," I really should have been able to come up with the answer for "Z."
AstraX
+1
Level 36
Feb 12, 2021
Damn got Septillion and Octillion but missed Eleven and Hundred.
kogatora
+2
Level 93
Mar 18, 2021
just need to assign kajillion to an actual number and we can have the whole alphabet. How about kajillion = square root of a googol (10^50)?
BlackChild56
+1
Level 65
Mar 24, 2021
There's a very well known number with 'J' in it. A bjillion
HendogJP
+1
Level 59
Apr 6, 2021
Goofed up the instructions and was guessing one for o... Sigh...
THEAilin
+1
Level 35
Sep 8, 2022
Nice quiz! I missed a few of the big numbers at first
justmebeingkim
+1
Level 28
Dec 10, 2022
I missed 3, I'll forgive myself missing septillion and octillion... BUT I LITTERALLY MISSED 8
Jato
+2
Level 71
Feb 9, 2023
There technically is actually a number whose name contains K, which is a Killillion, but the number itself is astronomically huge. 3,000 zeroes are needed to just write down its scientific notation.
elcampeador
+2
Level 78
Mar 15, 2023
Please accept "Plenty" for the P clue
Azerk
+2
Level 64
May 16, 2023
Ah yes, my favorite number
LorcanK
+1
Level 28
Mar 25, 2024
Didn't like was too hard and very silly
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