Does anybody know what this is called?

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I started to read and write at age two, but I was plagued by a problem in early elementary school. Whenever I would write out a number in word format, this is what I would get:
1ne
2wo
3ree
4our
5ive
6ix
7even
8ight
9ine

This problem dispersed sometime around fourth grade, but I have have done this a few times over the past few days and I don't know why.

Does anyone else have this problem, or a name for it?

I don't, but I think its a super cool trait. You could do some kind of funky art piece based on it.

Dunno if it has a name, but I frequently do that, too.

have you asked a Speech Therapist?

i think it is quite cool actually!

Uh, maybe dyscalculia?

I dunno. It's more likely for me to write out the word rather than the number itself. I'm dyscalculic and numbers give me a headache.

I was a speech therapist (not for six years now though) and I worked a couple of years in language and literacy in school aged children. I have never seen this before. What you are doing is substituting the digit not just for the first letter, but for the phonological onset of the first syllable. It shows that you have excellent awareness of the speech sound patterns of words, Autistic and asperger children are often quite brilliant at these structural aspects of language. It may just be that is how your brain remembers the numbers.

You might need to ask a current speech therapist, or perhaps an academic with a specialised interest - in hyperlexia?

The problem COULD be that your brain has to remember nunmbers in two ways. The numbers itself and also the written way, so "10" and "ten" and so on. Maybe your brain has difficulties remembering things in two different ways? Just a guess.