pangram

WOTD – 18 September 2010    

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek παν (“everything”) + γράμμα (“letter”), thus "all letters".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/

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Noun

pangram (plural pangrams)

1. A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet, such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in English.
   • 1986, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games

     Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people.

Translations

a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet

• Esperanto: ĉiuliteraĵo (eo)
• Finnish: pangrammi (fi)
• French: pangramme (fr), phrase holoalphabétique (fr)
• Italian: pangramma (it)

• Russian: панграмма (ru) (pangramma) f
• Spanish: pangrama (es), frase holoalfabética (es)

See also

• acrostic
• lipogram