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GET /v1/ordinal

Ordinal of a whole number (short + words)

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api.oanor.com/numberwords-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/numberwords-api/v1/ordinal" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/numberwords-api/v1/ordinal", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/numberwords-api/v1/ordinal");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/numberwords-api/v1/ordinal",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "number": 21,
        "ordinal": "21st",
        "ordinal_words": "twenty-first"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:04:26.211Z",
        "request_id": "f544ffd4-25e8-448e-97a1-52a8720188ff"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Ordinal formatted",
    "success": true
}