17000 in words
There are various situations where it is advisable and even necessary to know how to write a number in words. For instance, it is common practice, when writing in English, to write numbers in words. For larger numbers, like thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions, it is also common practice to write them in words instead of their numeral form, in order to avoid the reader from misreading the number of zeros. Moreover, writing numbers in words becomes essential when filling out a cheque.