Money Vocabulary Worksheet

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Money words 12

  • bill A paper note that counts as money. The paper of a United States bill is not ordinary paper: it is 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen.
  • borrow To get a loan of a thing that must be returned. Example: Kim borrows a dollar from her brother on Monday and gives it back on Friday.
  • cash Money you can touch, not numbers on a screen. Example: Ana pays in cash. She hands over two paper notes and counts out the rest from her pocket.
  • cent A tiny slice of a dollar: one part in a hundred. Its name goes back to centum, Latin for hundred. United States law calls a cent a hundredth of a dollar.
  • change The extra you are given back at the register. Example: Pay for a $3 toy with a $5 note and the change is $2. Loose coins are called change too.
  • coin A small metal disk made by a government to pay with. Federal law sets the width of each United States coin. A quarter, for one, must measure 0.955 inch across.
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Money words, continued

  • dollar The basic unit that America counts its money in. The Coinage Act of 1792 made it the base unit of the country's money, divided into 100 smaller parts.
  • earn To receive pay in return for your work. Example: Sam earns $5 for raking the leaves in a neighbor's yard.
  • lend To trust someone with a thing they will bring back. Example: Kim's brother lends her a dollar until Friday.
  • price The number on the tag: what a thing costs. Example: The price on the pencil is 25 cents, so a quarter is just enough.
  • save To build up money a little at a time. Example: Lily saves $1 every week. After 8 weeks she has $8.
  • spend To use up money to get what you need or want. Example: Ben spends $2 of his $10 on a notebook and has $8 left.

Coins and bills 12

  • currency All the bills and coins of one nation's money. The euro, the Japanese yen and the dollar of the United States are three currencies.
  • dime The thinnest, smallest piece: ten make a dollar. The law calls a dime a tenth of a dollar. Franklin D. Roosevelt is on its front.
  • dollar bill The paper note worth 100 cents. George Washington is pictured on its front, and the nation's Great Seal on its back.
  • face value The amount printed or stamped on a piece of money. A dime is smaller across than a penny, yet its face value is ten times as much.
  • half dollar The biggest U.S. coin made for spending, worth 50 cents. John F. Kennedy has been on its front since 1964. It weighs twice as much as a quarter and is seldom seen in change.
  • heads The front of a coin; its name comes from a face. Collectors call this side the obverse.
  • mint The government plant that stamps out coins. Philadelphia got the country's first mint in 1792. The plants in Philadelphia and Denver make the coins sent out to the Federal Reserve Banks.
  • nickel The smooth-edged silver-colored piece worth 5 cents. A quarter of its metal is nickel and the rest is copper. It weighs 5 grams.
  • penny The copper-colored piece worth 1 cent. Abraham Lincoln has been on its front since 1909. The Mint stopped making pennies for circulation in November 2025.
  • portrait A likeness of someone, such as the face on a bill. By law only a person who has died may be pictured on United States paper money, with the name printed below.
  • quarter The piece you need four of to make a dollar. The face on the front is George Washington's. The full name of the piece is quarter dollar.
  • tails The back of a coin. Collectors call this side the reverse. The back of the quarter has changed design many times since 1998.

Count and pay 12

  • allowance Money a family hands a child every week or month. The British name for it is pocket money. Some families tie it to chores and others do not.
  • amount The size of a sum: how many or how much. Example: The amount in the jar is 85 cents: three quarters and a dime.
  • buy To get a thing by giving money for it. Example: Maya buys a ruler. The opposite word is sell.
  • cash register The checkout machine with a drawer for money. A modern one is usually joined to a printer for receipts. Another name for it is a till.
  • cent sign A little c with a stroke through it, after a number. Amounts under a dollar can be written two ways: 75 with a cent sign after it, or $0.75.
  • decimal point The dot between the dollars and the cents. In $2.50 it stands between 2 dollars and 50 cents. Written out, a dime is $0.10.
  • dollar sign The mark $ that goes in front of a sum of money. It is a capital S crossed by one or two upright strokes. $1 is read as one dollar.
  • pay To hand over the money owed for something. Example: Maya pays 50 cents for a ruler at the school store.
  • piggy bank A jar or toy animal with a slot that holds savings. Many are shaped like a pig. Coins and folded bills go in through the slot at the top.
  • sell To give a thing to someone in return for money. Example: The school store sells rulers for 50 cents each.
  • total The answer you reach by adding every part. Example: A 40-cent eraser and a 35-cent pencil come to a total of 75 cents.
  • value What a thing is worth. Example: Two dimes and a nickel have a value of 25 cents, just what one quarter has.

How this list was compiled: Term list chosen for this site on 2026-10-16. Each meaning is written in our own words and was checked that day against the entry for the word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/) and against the English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/), whose text is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, in the articles Coin, Banknote, Cent (currency), United States dollar, Cash, Currency, Face value, Penny (United States coin), Nickel (United States coin), Dime (United States coin), Quarter (United States coin), Half dollar (United States coin), United States one-dollar bill, Obverse and reverse, United States Mint, Dollar sign, Piggy bank, Allowance (money) and Cash register. The facts on coins and bills were also checked against the United States Code as published by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School: 31 U.S.C. 5101, which calls a dime a tenth and a cent a hundredth of a dollar (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5101); 31 U.S.C. 5112, which gives the width and weight of each coin (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112); and 31 U.S.C. 5114, on portraits (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5114). The paper of a bill is from How Money is Made, Bureau of Engraving and Printing (https://www.bep.gov/currency/how-money-is-made); the two sides of the one-dollar note from the U.S. Currency Education Program (https://www.uscurrency.gov/denominations/1); the plants in Philadelphia and Denver from the Federal Reserve Board's page on coin (https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_about.htm). The end of penny production for circulation, the portraits on the coins, the Coinage Act of 1792 and the rows piggy bank, allowance and cash register rest on Wikipedia alone. Every sum in an example was worked by hand. The sentence after each meaning is our own. Licence: own work

How it works

This money vocabulary worksheet lines up coin, bill, cent, dollar, cash, change, price and five verbs, earn, save, spend, borrow and lend, beside their meanings in a mixed order. Its answer key prints as page 2.

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Money vocabulary 2nd grade worksheet

For a 2nd grade money unit, Set has Coins and bills: penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar bill, heads, tails, mint, portrait, currency and face value.

ESL money vocabulary worksheets

The third of these money vocabulary worksheets, Count and pay, has the words for reading a price aloud and using it: dollar sign, cent sign, decimal point, amount, total, value, pay, buy, sell, piggy bank, allowance and cash register. Under the tool every word has an example sentence or a fact, checked against Wiktionary, Wikipedia and the United States Code.

  • The sheets explain words and give no advice about money.

Questions and answers

What is money?

Money is anything that people in a country generally accept as payment for goods and services and for debts. Coins and bills are money, and so is a balance recorded in a bank account.

How many cents are in a dollar?

One hundred. That makes a dollar equal to 100 pennies, 20 nickels, 10 dimes, 4 quarters or 2 half dollars.

What is the difference between borrow and lend?

The person who hands a thing over lends it, and the person who receives it borrows it. A library lends a book and the reader borrows it. Either way, the thing goes back.

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