pangram

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English

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Etymology

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From pan- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/
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Noun

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Examples

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.

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