I need an algorithm to calculate the importance of a word based on how
complicated it is (e.g it's relevence). The algorithm needs to look at
the word, determine if its a name or not, and assign a number of
points (from 1 through 10) to each word, giving the word a "rank" in a
sense. I'll be using this in a PHP program, and it would be great if
the answer were written in PHP or in psudocode. I do have access to
functions that perform a spell check, and a relatively good
dictionary. The idea here is to use this in a file system with find
functions. The word ranking allows the program to prioritize the
search terms so it will get a better match.