How do you spell 185?

Answer 1

The number 185 is spelled out as one hundred eighty-five.

It should not contain words besides the numbers, such as and (and is only used to express fractions or decimals after the whole number). There should be a dash between the tens and ones spot.

You can read more about it here: Grammar Book: http://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp

Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/6460-numbers-spelled-out/

Purdue OWL: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/593/01/

Second answer (reference Oxford English)

One hundred and eighty-five is correct in Oxford English. I presume some places may have different rules about how numbers should be written.

If the two last digits of a number that is three or more digits long are not "00", it is grammatically correct to add "and". Here are several examples.

• 450 = four hundred and fifty.
• 400 = four hundred.
• 30,098 = thirty thousand and ninety-eight.
• 30,800 = thirty thousand eight-hundred.
• 900,012 = nine hundred thousand and twelve.
• 910,100 = nine hundred and ten thousand, one-hundred.
• 2,345,291 = two million, three hundred and forty-five thousand, two hundred and ninety-one.
• 4,211,400 = four million, two hundred and eleven thousand, four-hundred.

The rule may differ elsewhere. There is a lot of conflicting information due to different forms of the English language, but what I have explained is the standard Oxford English rule.

You can read about the Oxford English rules here: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/secondary/harts_rules/11-1-numbers-general-principles

Answer 2

Grammatically speaking, the number 185 is spelt one hundred and eighty-five, when spoken aloud and written.

In writing, if you wrote it as "one hundred eighty-five", it does not sound right nor does it sound like how you would normally pronounce it in numerical form.


Incorrect use:

• There are one hundred eighty-five people in the room.
• The drill is one hundred eighty-five feet below the surface.

Correct use:

• There are one hundred and eighty-five people in the room.
• The drill is one hundred and eighty-five feet below the surface.

Due to dialect differences, some people may say it differently.

Answer 3

One hundred eighty five.