pangram

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EnglishEdit

WOTD – 18 September 2010

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/

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NounEdit

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' (605 m), 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.

TranslationsEdit

a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet

• Esperanto: ĉiuliteraĵo
• Finnish: pangrammi
• French: pangramme (fr), phrase holoalphabétique
• German: Pangramm (de) n

• Greek: παντόγραμμα (el) n (pantógramma)
• Italian: pangramma
• Russian: пангра́мма (ru) f (pangrámma)
• Spanish: pangrama (es), frase holoalfabética

See alsoEdit

• acrostic
• lipogram