Letter Value Calculator
Allocates numbers to different letters of a text or a character string and calculates the sum. The values can be entered individually or numbered in order ascending or descending. Probably the most famous method of allocationg numbers to letters is the one used in the widespread board game Scrabble®. This is an example that not all letters need to have different values.
Values are allocated to the letters A to Z. All other characters, like punctuation marks and numbers, will be ignored. Upper and lower case letters are treated equally. In the output, a space is set between the values. Spaces in the original text are replaced by a separator (preset is | ).
The Scrabble values used here are, of course, those of the English version. In the German version, the letters have different values; for these, see the German page Buchstabenwert. For example, the letter Z is worth only 3 points in German, but 10 points in English, as it is much less common there. Other languages, of course, again have different values. The German variant, es well as the variants of some other languages, have characters that doesn't exist in English, like the German umlaute, these have also individual values.
Replacing letters with unique numbers, such as ascending or descending values, is one way to make a text unreadable, but it is certainly not a secure encryption method, as it is very easy to crack. If, on the other hand, two different letters are assigned the same numerical value, then the assignment is no longer unique and cannot be reversed. Therefore, it is no longer possible to reconstruct the word played from individual Scrabble points. Such a method therefore results in a loss of information.
Last updated on 11/02/2025. Author: Jürgen Kummer
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