Calculate the numerical value of any word or phrase across six standard gematria cipher systems — English Ordinal, Full Reduction, Reverse Ordinal, Reverse Full Reduction, Chaldean, and Francis Bacon.
Gematria is the practice of assigning numerical values to letters, words, and phrases — then interpreting those numbers as having significance or correspondence to other words with the same value. The word itself derives from the Greek geometria (geometry) via the Hebrew gimatria.
The tradition originated in ancient Hebrew scholarship, where the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet each carry an established numerical value (Aleph=1, Bet=2, and so on up to Tav=400). Scholars used these values to find connections between words and passages in religious texts. The Greek equivalent, isopsephy, applied the same principle to the Greek alphabet and appears in early Christian writings.
Modern English gematria adapts the concept to the Latin alphabet using several different cipher systems — each assigning values to A through Z by different rules. This calculator implements the six most widely referenced English gematria systems.