Gematria Ciphers
A cipher is the table that gives each letter its value. Pick one to see its full table, worked examples and background. All ciphers are also applied together on the calculator.
English OrdinalEnglish Ordinal is the simplest English gematria cipher. Each letter gets its position in the alphabet, so A = 1, B = 2 and Z = 26. Many people simply call it "simple gematria".Reverse OrdinalReverse Ordinal runs the alphabet backwards: Z = 1, Y = 2 and A = 26. It gives the same letters a different weight and is often used next to English Ordinal for comparison.Reduction (Pythagorean)Reduction, also called Pythagorean or Single Digit, gives every letter a value from 1 to 9. The alphabet is written in rows of nine, so A, J and S are all worth 1.Reverse ReductionReverse Reduction applies the single-digit idea to the reversed alphabet, so Z = 1 and A = 8 (because 26 reduces to 8).Sumerian (x6)Sumerian gematria multiplies the English Ordinal value of each letter by six, so A = 6, B = 12 and Z = 156. Totals are always multiples of six.Jewish EnglishJewish English assigns Latin letters the same pattern of units, tens and hundreds used in Hebrew gematria: A to I = 1 to 9, J to R = 10 to 90, and S to Z = 100 to 800.Francis BaconThe Francis Bacon cipher numbers a 24-letter alphabet in which I and J share a value and U and V share a value, so A = 1 up to Z = 24.ChaldeanChaldean numerology gives letters values from 1 to 8. The number 9 is deliberately not assigned to any letter. It is widely used in India for name numbers.Hebrew (Mispar Hechrachi)Hebrew gematria, in its standard form Mispar Hechrachi (absolute value), gives each of the 22 Hebrew letters a fixed value from 1 to 400. It is the original gematria on which the English ciphers are modelled.
Traditional methods and modern conventions
Hebrew gematria is a traditional practice. The English ciphers, including English Ordinal, Reduction, Sumerian, Jewish English and Francis Bacon, are modern conventions that borrow the idea. Chaldean and Pythagorean numerology are modern systems too. We say which is which on each page. For a comparison of the two most popular name-number tables, read Pythagorean vs Chaldean numerology.
Gematria and numerology are traditions of interpretation, not sciences. Results are provided for education, curiosity and entertainment and are not a prediction or professional advice.