Seven English ciphers calculated at once — from the simple A=1...Z=26 count to the 1976 Thelemic English Qaballa system.
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English Simple Gematria (also called English Ordinal) assigns each letter its position in the alphabet: A=1 through Z=26. It is the most widely used English cipher because it is the easiest to calculate by hand and the most intuitive starting point for comparing word values.
Reverse Ordinal mirrors Simple Gematria by counting the alphabet backwards: A=26, B=25, down to Z=1. It is used alongside Simple Gematria to check whether a word produces a notable value from either direction.
Full Reduction (the same logic used in Pythagorean numerology) reduces every letter to a single digit from 1 to 9 and then repeats the cycle: A=1, B=2 ... I=9, J=1, K=2 ... R=9, S=1 ... Z=8. It compresses the alphabet into a repeating 1-9 pattern rather than a straight 1-26 count.
Reverse Full Reduction applies the same 1-9 repeating reduction as Full Reduction, but starting from the reversed alphabet (Z=1 ... A=26 first, then reduced). It is a less common but frequently cross-checked variant among researchers who track both directions of every cipher.
English Sumerian Gematria (sometimes just called "Sumerian") multiplies each letter's Simple Gematria value by 6: A=6, B=12, C=18, up to Z=156. The base-6 multiplier is drawn from the sexagesimal (base-60) number system used in ancient Sumer, which is where the cipher takes its name.
Jewish Gematria applies the same ones-tens-hundreds structure used by the Hebrew alphabet (where the first nine letters count by ones, the next nine by tens, and the rest by hundreds) to the 26 English letters: A=10 ... I=90, J=100 ... R=900, S=1000 ... Z=1700. It is not a traditional Hebrew system — it is a modern English-language cipher designed to echo that structure.
English Qaballa (also called the ALW cipher) was developed by James Lees in 1976 as an attempt to fulfil a passage in Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law" (verse 2:55) instructing the reader to "obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet." Rather than counting A to Z in sequence, it steps through the alphabet 11 letters at a time — A, L, W, H, S, D, O, Z, K, V, G, R, C, N, Y, J, U, F, Q, B, M, X, I, T, E, P — assigning 1 through 26 in that order, since stepping by 11 (a significant number in Thelemic numerology) visits every letter exactly once before returning to A. A commonly cited worked example: "WORD" sums to 3 + 7 + 12 + 6 = 28.
English Simple Gematria (also called English Ordinal), where A=1 through Z=26, is the most widely used and easiest to verify by hand. Most "words that equal the same number" comparisons online use this cipher unless another is specified.
No — English gematria is a modern adaptation. Hebrew and Greek letters have always doubled as numbers within their own alphabets, but English letters have no inherent numerical value, so English gematria ciphers are constructed systems (usually just A=1...Z=26 or variations on it) rather than an ancient built-in feature of the language.