pangram

English

WOTD – 18 September 2010

Etymology

From pan- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

Examples
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig.

pangram (plural pangrams)

1. A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.
   • 1873 March, unknown, “Word-Play”, in The Proof-Sheet‎^[1]:

     Higher in the scale range the Cadmean curiosities of the Pangram, Lipogram, and Anagram. The first of these must contain the entire alphabet, and claims the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the Prophet Ezra as its most noted example.

   • 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.

   • 2016, Jeeva Jose, Sojan P. Lal, Introduction to Computing & Problem Solving with Python, page 177:

     Write a Python function to determine whether or not a string is a pangram.

Translations

a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet

• Catalan: pangrama m
• Dutch: pangram (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĉiuliteraĵo
• Finnish: pangrammi
• French: pangramme (fr), phrase holoalphabétique
• German: Pangramm (de) n
• Greek: πάγγραμμα n (pángramma), παντόγραμμα (el) n (pantógramma)
• Italian: pangramma
• Japanese: パングラム (panguramu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pangram (ku) f

• Polish: pangram (pl) m
• Portuguese: pangrama (pt) m
• Russian: пангра́мма (ru) f (pangrámma)
• Spanish: pangrama (es), frase holoalfabética

See also

• acrostic
• fox message
• lipogram
• the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog