Gematria calculator for chaos magic
Type a word or a phrase and see its total under five published letter tables. Keep your own words and see which ones land on the same number.
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Letters count. Spaces, digits and marks do not, and an accented letter counts as the plain one.
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Root adds up the digits of the total until one is left, the way numerology reads it: 74 gives 11, then 2.
Your words
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Shared numbers
Same number, same table, that is all. The page offers no meanings; what a match says is your call.
Where the tables come from
- English ordinal. Each letter counts its place in the alphabet. Gematria sites also call it Simple.
- Reverse ordinal. The alphabet counted from the other end, so every letter and its ordinal value add up to 27.
- Pythagorean. The table of modern Western numerology: the alphabet in rows of nine, so J and S start again at 1. Gematria sites call it Full Reduction.
- Chaldean. The table in Cheiro's Book of Numbers (1926). Letters take 1 to 8 and no letter is 9. Other Chaldean tables differ; this one is Cheiro's, letter for letter.
- English Qaballa. James Lees, 1976. Named in The New Equinox in 1979 and set out there by Lees from 1981. Every eleventh letter takes the next number: 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.
What this is
The Word Cipher is a free gematria calculator for English. It totals a word or phrase under five published letter tables at once: English ordinal, reverse ordinal, Pythagorean, Chaldean (Cheiro's table) and English Qaballa. It shows each sum letter by letter, and finds which of your own saved words share a total.
How the Word Cipher works
Gematria gives every letter a number and adds them up. The total depends entirely on the table, which is why one word can come to 26 on one site and 55 on another. Every total here carries the name of its table, and every table is listed with where it comes from.
English ordinal counts each letter's place, A as 1 to Z as 26. Reverse ordinal counts from the other end. Pythagorean is the table of modern numerology, the alphabet laid out in rows of nine, so J and S start again at 1. Chaldean here means Cheiro's table from his 1926 Book of Numbers, which runs 1 to 8; other Chaldean tables exist and differ. English Qaballa is the order James Lees found in 1976 while working on The Book of the Law: every eleventh letter takes the next number, 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.
Keep it adds a word to your list, which stays in this browser. The page then shows every number that two or more of your words share, table by table. It ships no dictionary of matches and no meanings: the only words it compares are yours.
Same number, same table, that is all. A match is arithmetic. With a few hundred possible totals and thousands of words, matches are certain to turn up, and what one means is your call. Chaos magicians use these tables to pick a seed for a sigil, to play with a phrase, or to see what their own words do. The Sigil Foundry takes it from there.
Word Cipher questions
What is English gematria?
Any table that gives the letters of the English alphabet numbers so words can be added up and compared. The idea comes from Hebrew gematria, where the letters were also the numerals. English tables are modern, so always say which one you used.
What is the English Qaballa?
A table found by James Lees in 1976, named in The New Equinox in 1979 and set out there by Lees from 1981. Counting every eleventh letter gives the order 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, valued 1 to 26. In it, Jesus, life and change all come to 68.
What is the difference between Pythagorean and Chaldean numerology?
The Pythagorean table runs the alphabet in rows of nine, so every letter is 1 to 9 in order. The Chaldean table in Cheiro's Book of Numbers gives values 1 to 8 that do not follow the alphabet, and no letter is 9. The same name usually totals differently in each.
Does the page tell me what a number means?
No. It gives the totals and which of your words share them. It carries no meaning tables, because the meaning of a match is not something arithmetic can supply.
Are my words sent anywhere?
No. The sums happen in your browser, and the list you keep is stored in this browser only. Clearing the site's data clears the list.
How are accents and spaces counted?
Only the 26 letters count. An accented letter counts as the plain one, so é is e, and ß counts as ss. Spaces, digits and punctuation are skipped.