Conundrum: Alphagram
What number, when written as a word in English, has all of its letters in alphabetical order?
For example, “six” doesn’t work, because the letter S comes before the letter I in the word, but S comes after I in the alphabet.
The word “begin” has all five of its letters in alphabetical order, but, of course, it is not a number.
Can you find the only number that meets this requirement?
UPDATE: Number identified by Jeff. See comments for answer.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:26 am
40 (forty)
January 15th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
FORTY is correct. Way to go, Jeff!