For the number sixteen, 'six' is the ones word and 'teen' is the tens word. We say the ones first, then tens. However, when you write the number in numerals, the tens come before the ones.
This section can help answer questions where numbers are written using words as well as digits. Each digit in a number has a place value. It shows the position of a digit in a number. The first ...
However, reading long numbers resulted in longer fixation durations than reading long words (300 ms vs. 250 ms), and saccade amplitude was lower when reading long numbers.