Simple Gematria Calculator

How to use this calculator

1. Type a word or phrase.
2. Its simple gematria value appears as you type, with the other methods alongside.
3. Tap any cipher to feature it and see each letter's value.

It ignores spaces and punctuation. Most ciphers ignore case, but the Capitals ciphers read uppercase and lowercase letters differently. When you type digits, a Numbers control appears so you can choose how they count.

What is simple gematria?

Simple gematria is the most basic method. Each letter takes its place in the alphabet: A is 1, B is 2, on up to Z is 26. You add the letters to get the word's value, so "Wisdom" comes to 83. It is the same thing as English Ordinal, and it is where most people start before trying other ciphers.

For the reduced, reversed, and Hebrew-style methods, see the broader English gematria calculator.

Understanding the calculations

The large number is the total for the highlighted cipher. Under it, every letter shows the value that cipher gives it, and those values add up to the total. For example, in English Ordinal the word Wisdom works out as W 23 + i 9 + s 19 + d 4 + o 15 + m 13 = 83. If you type more than one word, the line below shows what each word comes to on its own.

Each cipher assigns numbers to letters in its own way, so the same word lands on a different total in each one. Switch Wisdom to Reverse Ordinal and it becomes 79 instead. Tap any cipher in the grid to feature it. None of them is the one right answer; you use whichever your tradition or method calls for. To read where these ciphers come from and which are old or modern, see the guide to the gematria ciphers.

The grid opens with a basic set of the most-used ciphers so it stays readable. Tap Customise above it to switch any of the thirty-five on or off, or use the Basic, All and None shortcuts, and your choice is remembered on your device. You can also build your own cipher, which then sits in the grid like any other; if you want capital letters to score differently from lowercase, the builder has an option for that.

The small Reduces to line takes the total and adds its digits together down to a single digit, the way numerology does. A total of 83 becomes 8 + 3 = 11, while 48 becomes 4 + 8 = 12, then 1 + 2 = 3. The numbers 11, 22, and 33 are the exception: they are left as they are and called master numbers, so the line stops there instead of reducing further. (This is separate from the Full Reduction cipher, which reduces each letter rather than the final total.)

Tap the large total to open its number properties: whether the number is prime, what it factors into, which sequences it belongs to, and how it reads in binary, hexadecimal and other bases. The same panel sits on the Numbers page, where you can look up any number on its own.

Tap Matching words under the total to see the words and names that share its value in the cipher you have featured. It reads from a dictionary of common words and first names, free and with no limit, so a value like 83 can turn up hundreds of matches at once.

If your text includes digits, like a year or an age, the Numbers buttons set how they are counted. Take the number 2024:

• Smart keeps a short number whole (so 11 stays 11) but splits a long one into single digits, so 2024 becomes 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8.
• Full always uses the whole number, so 2024 stays 2024.
• Reduced adds up the digits, so 2024 becomes 8.
• Off leaves numbers out of the total, the same as not typing them.

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