NougatThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?
The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other...
NONEI don’t know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.
SatyrSackI was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc:
=LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1 (row 1 being a header row)
Language
Word
Digit
English
Four
4
German
Vier
4
Italian
Tre
3
Spanish
Cinco
5
Dutch
Vier
4
Portuguese
Cinco
5
Swedish
Tre
3
Swedish
Fyra
4
Danish
To
2
Danish
Tre
3
Danish
Fire
4
Norwegian
To
2
Norwegian
Tre
3
Norwegian
Fire
4
Finnish
Viisi
5
Turkish
Dört
4
French
N/A
N/A
Indonesian
N/A
N/A
Polish
N/A
N/A
This is a clever solution
In Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.
二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
AdmetusWe getcha but that’s romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate ans that’s a little boring :p