pangram

From pan- +‎ -gram.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/, /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/

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pangram (plural pangrams)

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

     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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