How to spell one-hundred

hear itone·hun·dred/wʌnˈhʌndrəd/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Equal to ten times ten in number.

In a sentence: I have one-hundred colorful marbles in my jar.

Same family: hundreds, hundredth, one hundred and one, two hundred, one-thousand. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "hundred" comes from Old English "hund" (meaning "100") and "rǣd" or "red" (meaning "count" or "number"). The spelling has changed over time, but it has been used for centuries to describe this key base-10 number.

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