What is ordinal English gematria?

It is the simplest scheme: each letter takes its position in the alphabet, so A is 1, B is 2, up to Z is 26. The value of a word is the sum of its letters. It is also called simple or ordinal gematria.

Is the calculation case sensitive?

No. Uppercase and lowercase letters score the same; A and a are both 1. Letters are normalised before scoring, so HELLO and hello give the same total of 52.

What is the reduced value?

The reduced or digital-root value repeatedly sums the digits of the total until one digit remains. For example 52 reduces to 5+2=7. It is a common companion figure in numerology.

Are spaces, numbers and punctuation counted?

No. Only the 26 English letters are scored. Spaces, digits, punctuation and accented characters are skipped, so only the alphabetic content of your phrase contributes to the total.

What is the value of a famous word?

The word HELLO sums to 8+5+12+12+15 = 52. You can confirm any result with the per-letter breakdown the tool shows beneath the total.

English Gematria Calculator

Ordinal English gematria assigns each letter its alphabet position — A is 1, Z is 26 — and a word’s value is the sum of its letters. This calculator computes that total for any phrase and shows how each letter contributes.

How it works

Every character is examined. If it is an English letter it is uppercased and scored as its position in the alphabet:

value(letter) = (uppercase code) − 64
A=1  B=2  C=3 … Z=26
total = sum of value(letter) for every letter

Non-letters — spaces, digits, punctuation — are ignored. The tool also computes the reduced value, the digital root, by summing the digits of the total repeatedly until a single digit remains.

Example and tips

The word GERA scores G=7, E=5, R=18, A=1, for a total of 31, which reduces to 4 (3+1). Because the scheme ignores everything but letters, a phrase and its spaceless form give the same total — useful when comparing names or titles. Note this is the ordinal scheme; other English systems multiply by six or use keyboard layouts, and would give different numbers.