pangram

English

WOTD – 18 September 2010

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/
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Etymology

pan- +‎ -gram

Noun

pangram (plural pangrams)

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.

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

See also

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