English words with "letter score" adding up to 100, sorted by frequency.

letters-to-100.py

import re # Regular Expressions
import collections # Data Types
import sys # File operations
import codecs # UniCode support
import os
import operator
import string

def load_freq(freq_f):

	f = codecs.open(freq_f, 'r', encoding='utf-8')

	letter_values = dict((l, i) for i, l in enumerate(string.ascii_lowercase, start=1))

	winners = {}

	for line in f:

		try:
			freq_line = line.rstrip('\r').split('\t')
			freq = int(freq_line[0])
			form = freq_line[1]

			score = 0
			for char in form:
				if char.isalpha(): score += letter_values[char.lower()]
			
			if score == 100:
				if not form in winners: winners[form]=freq
		except:
			print ("Error with: %s." % line, "\tError message: ", sys.exc_info())

	winners = sorted(winners.items(), key=lambda x:x[1], reverse=True)


	return winners

if __name__ == '__main__':

	freq_file = "forms_freq.txt"

	print("Loading frequency data...")
	winners = load_freq(freq_file)

	for rank in range(100):
		print (rank+1, winners[rank][0])

output.txt

1 problems
2 personal
3 services
4 congress
5 culture
6 hospital
7 analysis
8 therefore
9 standards
10 status
11 sources
12 variety
13 primary
14 writing
15 prevent
16 quarter
17 stress
18 explains
19 colleagues
20 attitude
21 towards
22 telephone
23 wednesday
24 courses
25 excellent
26 afghanistan
27 elsewhere
28 whenever
29 session
30 surely
31 thirty
32 discipline
33 producer
34 performed
35 delivery
36 publicly
37 inflation
38 telescope
39 styles
40 turkey
41 referring
42 pursue
43 threatened
44 responded
45 annually
46 researcher
47 addressing
48 corridor
49 collecting
50 appointed
51 portland
52 applying
53 likelihood
54 restore
55 lightning
56 companion
57 designers
58 resolved
59 acknowledge
60 maintains
61 milwaukee
62 practicing
63 playoffs
64 useless
65 towers
66 rituals
67 cousins
68 boundary
69 fountain
70 selective
71 molecular
72 temporal
73 pouring
74 judiciary
75 arrests
76 pakistani
77 pumpkin
78 socialism
79 whiskey
80 suzanne
81 profiles
82 highways
83 interfere
84 motors
85 pounding
86 identifies
87 permits
88 trembling
89 strains
90 wholesale
91 eventual
92 boulevard
93 elephants
94 outlined
95 printer
96 unrelated
97 squares
98 adulthood
99 watergate
100 imported