pangram

From pan- +‎ -gram.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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.

2. (crosswording) A crossword puzzle in which every letter appears in the completed grid.
   • 2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     A pangram (or, as some manage, the triple pangram, with at least three of every letter) restricts the options, directing the setter away from habits and repetition and towards a fresher puzzle.

   • 2021 December 31, Hayley Gold, Letters to Margaret, Lone Shark Games, →ISBN, page 62:

     I've always wanted to make an anti-pangram pangram puzzle - the NYT would never run something so self-mocking!

   • 2024 November 2, “No Such Puzzle: Pangram Crosswords”, in National Security Agency‎^[2]:

• pangrammatic

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

Internationalism; compare English pangram, Spanish pangrama, French pangramme. By surface analysis, pan- +‎ -gram.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋ.ɡram/
• Rhymes: -aŋɡram
• Syllabification: pan‧gram

pangram m inan

1. (linguistics) pangram (sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet)

• pangram in Polish dictionaries at PWN