What Is the English Gematria Calculator?
Gematria assigns numbers to letters, words, and phrases. The practice is traditionally Hebrew, but it has also been adapted for the English alphabet.
This calculator returns the value of any English word or phrase in three systems: the ALW cipher (English Qaballa), English Ordinal (also called simple gematria), and Reverse Ordinal.
How to Use the English Gematria Calculator
Type or paste your text into the box and choose a system.
- ALW Cipher: Also known as English Qaballa (EQ), this system numbers every eleventh letter of the alphabet: A=1, L=2, W=3, and so on. It was discovered by James Lees in 1976.
- English Ordinal (simple gematria): Each letter takes its position in the alphabet: A=1, B=2, C=3, up to Z=26. There is no reordering or special weighting; a word’s value is simply the sum of its letters.
- Reverse Ordinal: The alphabet flipped, so Z=1, Y=2, X=3, up to A=26. A word that scores high in standard Ordinal often scores low in Reverse, so comparing both can reveal complementary patterns that a single cipher would miss.
Click Calculate to see the total gematria value and its individual letter values. The tool keeps a record of calculations for future reference.
What Is English Gematria For?
Words that share a value within a system are considered connected. Historically, the ALW cipher has been used to analyze esoteric texts such as the Book of the Law, the central text of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema: in this system, the words “Jesus”, “life”, and “change” all share the same value, which practitioners read as a link between these concepts.
Simple gematria is used to explore the numerical values of everyday English words and find patterns, much as Greek isopsephy was used in classical times. You can:
- Analyze religious and mystical texts with the ALW cipher.
- Study relationships between words with the same value and consider possible symbolic meanings.
- Compare a word’s value against its value in other numerology systems.
Try a few words and compare the values. The connections are often surprising.
Related Tools
- Explore other English numerology systems with our Pythagorean numerology and Chaldean numerology tools.
- Get classical Hebrew gematria values with our calculator.