Given a word, compute the Scrabble score for that word.
You'll need these:
Letter Value
A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T 1
D, G 2
B, C, M, P 3
F, H, V, W, Y 4
K 5
J, X 8
Q, Z 10
"cabbage" should be scored as worth 14 points:
And to total:
3 + 2*1 + 2*3 + 2 + 1
3 + 2 + 6 + 3
5 + 9
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