I'm trying to produce a line of code the returns the score of a word but at the moment I am getting an error

Question

def getWordScore(word):
    points_total = 0 
for letter in word:
      points_total += getLetterScore.get(letter,0)
return points_total
brownie_points = getWordScore("BROWNIE")

output NameError: name 'word' is not defined

I'm a bit confused at why I'm getting the nameError,Any suggestions?

Answer 1

a proper indentation should do the trick

    def getWordScore(word):
        points_total = 0
        for letter in word:
            points_total += getLetterScore.get(letter, 0)
        return points_total
brownie_points = getWordScore("BROWNIE")

do notice that you have not provided getLetterScore, so there might be some other issues