Given a word, determine its score in Scrabble.
The input string will always be provided in lower case. Use the English language Scrabble letter values as found in this Wikipedia reference: letter distributions for English.
Example:
Input str = 'matlab' Output score is 10.
Solution Stats
Problem Comments
Solution Comments
-
1 Comment
Paul Smits
on 15 Apr 2019
Funny that 2017a-style double quotations significantly shorter the size as compared to the 2016b-style string() function alternative :)
-
1 Comment
rifat
on 13 Mar 2015
didnt see that Cody changed the test suite of this problem and I lost one important badge. such a shame..
-
1 Comment
Gareth Lee
on 21 May 2015
not good
Recent Solvers690
Suggested Problems
-
Check to see if a Sudoku Puzzle is Solved
225 Solvers
-
215 Solvers
-
Return elements unique to either input
448 Solvers
-
157 Solvers
-
find the maximum element of the matrix
238 Solvers
More from this Author95
Tags
Select a Web Site
Choose a web site to get translated content where available and see local events and offers. Based on your location, we recommend that you select: .
Select web siteYou can also select a web site from the following list:
Americas
- América Latina (Español)
- Canada (English)
- United States (English)
Europe
- Belgium (English)
- Denmark (English)
- Deutschland (Deutsch)
- España (Español)
- Finland (English)
- France (Français)
- Ireland (English)
- Italia (Italiano)
- Luxembourg (English)
- Netherlands (English)
- Norway (English)
- Österreich (Deutsch)
- Portugal (English)
- Sweden (English)
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom (English)