Tool to convert letters to numbers and vice versa using the alphanumeric code A1Z26 (A=1, B=2, C=3).
Letter Number Code (A1Z26) A=1, B=2, C=3 - dCode
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Letter Number Code (A1Z26) A=1, B=2, C=3
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What is the A1Z26 cipher? (Definition)
The Letter-to-Number Cipher (or Number-to-Letter Cipher or numbered alphabet) consists in replacing each letter by its position in the alphabet, for example A=1, B=2, Z=26, hence its over name A1Z26.
How to encrypt using Letter-to-Number/A1Z26 cipher?
A1Z26 encryption requires to count the positions/ranks of letters in the alphabet. If it is the Latin alphabet of 26 characters here is the correspondence table letter ↔ number/value:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
Replace each letter with its position in the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2, … Z = 26)
Example: DCODE is encrypted 4-3-15-4-5 by alphanumeric substitution
Often the space character is also encoded with the number 0
How to decrypt Number-to-Letter cipher?
Decryption requires taking each number and replace it with the letter of same position in the alphabet: 1 = A, 2 = B, … 26 = Z
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
Example: 1.12.16.8.1.2.5.20 gives ALPHABET
How to recognize Letter-to-Number ciphertext?
The crypted message is made of numbers between 1 and 26, sometimes the number 0 is used to code a space.
The digit 5 for E is supposed to appear regularly for an English text.
This encryption is sometimes called alphanumeric code.
What are the variants of the Letter-to-Number cipher?
Shift of numbers: the alphabet can start with A = 0 or A = 1, but also A = 65 or A = 97 (ASCII code).
Use of a supplementary character for space (usually 0 or 27)
Use of leading zeros to be able to concatenate numbers AB = 0102, else AB = 12 and 12 = L.
Use of a custom alphabet, or reversed alphabet (A=26, Z=1)
Use of modulo 26 in order to get 1=A,2=B,…26=Z then 27=A, 28=B etc.
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- Number to Letter A1Z26 Converter
- Letter to Number A1Z26 Encoder
- Calculate a word's value
- What is the A1Z26 cipher? (Definition)
- How to encrypt using Letter-to-Number/A1Z26 cipher?
- How to decrypt Number-to-Letter cipher?
- How to recognize Letter-to-Number ciphertext?
- What are the variants of the Letter-to-Number cipher?
