Letter Game Challenge Python
<p>A word game awards points for the letters used in a word.  The lower the frequency of the letter in the English language, the higher the score for the letter.  Write a program that asks the user to input a word.  The program should then output the score for the word according to the following rules:</p>

<p><img src="//i.stack.imgur.com/Fhyli.jpg" alt="Table for letters and score in numbers"></p>

<p>How would you add a score together for letters that the user has inputted?</p>

<p>I am having issues with this</p>

<pre><code>#Letter Game Challenge
letters = ("e","a","r","i","o","t","n","s","l","c","u","d","p","m","h"
           ,"g","b","f","y","w","k","v","x","z","j","q")

points = (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)

def main():
    global word_input
    print ("Input a word to see the score")
    word_input = input()
    if any(letter in word_input for letter in letters):
        l1()
    else:
        print ("Enter a word with letters in!")
        main()
</code></pre>

<p>This is what I have so far just don't know how to split the word inputted and check for a letter and give a score for it.</p>

<p>To loop through the letters of a word use a for loop:</p>

<pre><code>for letter in word_input:
</code></pre>

<p>You will need to look up the score for each letter. Try using a dictionary:</p>

<pre><code>scores = {"e": 1,
          "a": 2, 
          #etc
</code></pre>

<p>Then you can look the score of a letter with <code>scores[letter]</code></p>

python python-3.x