Thousands with a silent tens place
74,104 splits into 74 | 104. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “one hundred” directly.
Seventy-four thousand one hundred four
Pattern: Thousands with a silent tens place
74,104 splits into 74 | 104. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “one hundred” directly.
| Digit | Position | Value | Value in words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | ten-thousands | 70,000 | seventy thousand |
| 4 | thousands | 4,000 | four thousand |
| 1 | hundreds | 100 | one hundred |
| 0 | tens | 0 | not spoken |
| 4 | ones | 4 | four |
| Group | Digits | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| thousands | 74 | seventy-four thousand |
| final group | 104 | one hundred four |
74,104 splits into 74 | 104. In the final group, the tens place is zero, so “four” follows “one hundred” directly.
The comma boundary separates 74 from 104: “seventy-four thousand” is read before “one hundred four”.
The tens position contains zero. It preserves place value in the numeral but adds no spoken word.
The spelling contains one hyphen. Each hyphen joins a tens word to a non-zero ones word inside the same two-digit group.
The American English style used here normally omits “and” between “hundred” and the following tens or ones.