Something like this perhaps?

use warnings;
use strict;

my %lookup = (
    a => 2,
    b => 4,
    c => 4,
    d => 4,
    e => 1,
    f => 5,
    g => 6,
    h => 3,
    i => 2,
    j => 7,
    k => 7,
    l => 4,
    m => 3,
    n => 3,
    o => 2,
    p => 5,
    q => 11,
    r => 5,
    s => 3,
    t => 3,
    u => 2,
    v => 4,
    w => 7,
    x => 10,
    y => 7,
    z => 9
);

my @scores;

while ( my $line = <DATA> ) {
    chomp $line;
    my @words = split /\s+/, $line;
    for my $word (@words) {
        $word =~ s/[^A-Za-z]//g;
        next unless length $word;
        my @letters = split //, $word;
        my $score;
        $score += $lookup{ lc $_ } for @letters;
        push @{ $scores[$score] }, $word;
    }
}

for my $score ( 0 .. $#scores ) {
    if ( defined @{ $scores[$score] } ) {
        my %words;
        @words{ @{ $scores[$score] } } = undef;
        print 'Scored ', $score, ":\n";
        print "    $_\n" for 
          sort { length $a <=> length $b || $a cmp $b } keys %words;
        print "\n";
    }
}

__DATA__

In short, I am creating a little word game Each character is
worth X points, so I record the word in the hash along with
the value of the entire word. That's what the numbers are in
the example (not accurate, mind you, it's just  basic sample
code).

When I print out scores, I'll need to be able to sort by the
length of the word and/or sort by the word values. When sorted
by value, I need to be able to display all words in specific
categories by their value. All 5 pt words are grouped together,
as so on.

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In reply to Re^3: Sorting hashes with new value detection by thundergnat
in thread Sorting hashes with new value detection by sulfericacid

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