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American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

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Pangrams ("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.")

Sentences containing every letter of the alphabet are called "pangrams", or "holalphabetic sentences".

A pangram is a phrase or sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once. Which alphabet, you ask ? Good question ! In the following, we shall basically restrict ourselves to the 26 letters in the English language.

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How quickly daft jumping zebras vex

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The big plump jowls of zancy Dick Nixon quiver.

Jack and Gill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Gill came tumbling after.

Up got Jack, and home did trot

As fast as he could caper

He went to bed and bound his head

With vinegar and brown paper.

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Some Well-Known Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This is undoubtedly the best known pangram. It contains all 26 letters of the alphabet (as it must do in order to be a pangram) and is 35 letters long. That means that is not particularly economical with 9 surplus letters.

A keen eye will spot that the word the occurs twice, and so one of them can be considered to be composed entirely of surplus letters. Removal of either the renders the sentence less grammatically correct which is undesirable. However, either of them may be exchanged for the much shorter indefinite article, a, thus saving on 2 letters:

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

This is 33 letters in length. That can be beaten with the following, which has just 32 letters:

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

Perfect Pangrams (exactly 26 letters) have been composed, but none makes good sense, being rather more a string of obscure words than a sentence.

Listed below you will find a number of English pangrams arranged in descending order of length (the number of letters used is shown in red). No pangrams over twice the length of the alphabet (i.e. 52 letters) have been included.

(50) We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize.

(49) How razorback jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts.

(48) Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag.

(46) Crazy Fredrick bought many very exquisite opal jewels.

(36) Jump by vow of quick, lazy strength in Oxford.

(33) The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

(32) Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

(30) How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.

(29) Sphinx of black quartz: judge my vow.

(29) Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.

(28) Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex bud.

In the remaining pangrams, each letter of the alphabet occurs once and only once. These pangrams are also anagrams of the alphabet. They are called perfect pangrams.

(26) Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.

(26) Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.

(26) Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.

(26) Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!

(26) TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.

(26) Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz.

Note: Since we added this pangram section, our visitors have sent in hundreds of their personal favourite pangrams. We've created a page showcasing all of the best ones. Be sure to check out our pangrams submissions page.

See also the history of pangrams and find out about lorem ipsum. And if you like travel games and word games, then you'll love the Pangrammatic Highway.

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Lorem Ipsum...

Almost half a millennium ago a printer scrambled a galley of type to produce the first pangram for a specimen book. The text was in Latin, of course, and so only 23 letters were required (Latin does not use J , V or W; however V is now used to represent the consonantal U, and sometimes J to represent consonantal I).

The phrase was rather nonsensical Latin. It is the most famous Latin pangram text and it is still used, in a remarkably little-altered form, by typographical designers:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,

diam nonnumy eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolo...

In itself this makes little sense, but a little research reveals that it is composed from fragments of a passage in Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (45BC):

Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum

quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...

This means There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it, and wants to have it, simply because it is pain...

There are many, many versions of the lorem ipsum pangram sentence, and you are unlikely to come across any two which are identical. It has evolved slowly with use, through a combination of typing errors and deliberate – usually subtle – humorous additions. Some versions are no longer than the example given above, whilst others have been extended to several hundred words. Most importantly, especially when the text is used to demonstrate a font, the letters not found in the Latin alphabet have been added in too.

You may be beginning to wonder why it is necessary to use Latin, and nonsense Latin at that, in typographical design and font examples. There are a number of reasons why the lorem ipsum pangram text is used. Not only does it include every available letter, but it is represents a typical English sentence in terms of word length too, thus obtaining the same balance as real text. A further advantage is that, since this text conveys no meaning, a reader who is supposed to be scrutinising a page layout or font face (looking for formatting errors, etc.) does not get distracted by the subject of the text.

A longer sample:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ulliam corper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem veleum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel willum lunombro dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.

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Pangrams

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A pangram is a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet. Less frequently, such sentences are called holalphabetic sentences. Interesting pangrams are generally short ones; constructing a sentence that includes the fewest repeat letters possible is a challenging task. However, pangrams that are slightly longer yet enlightening, humorous, or eccentric are noteworthy in their own right.

By far the most well-known pangram is, "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." Frequently this is the sentence used to test out new typewriters, presumably because it includes every letter of the alphabet. Curiously, this sentence is often misquoted by changing "jumps" to "jumped." The past tense version, lacking an s, is not a pangram. Often, too, it is misquoted as "the lazy dog" rather than "a lazy dog." This error is not as grievous; the sentence remains a pangram, just a slightly longer one.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there are no particularly clever 26 letter pangrams in English. Constructing a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet once and no more -- essentially an anagram of the alphabet -- seems to require the use of acronyms, initials, and strange punctuation. The most interesting I've seen is, "Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ."

Also note the section on autograms, as that contains some autograms (sentences that self-document their letter content) that are also pangrams.

A number of pangrams are given below, listed from longest to shortest.

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Examples

Forsaking monastic tradition, twelve jovial friars gave up their vocation for a questionable existence on the flying trapeze. (106 letters)

No kidding -- Lorenzo called off his trip to visit Mexico City just because they told him the conquistadores were extinct. (99 letters)

Jelly-like above the high wire, six quaking pachyderms kept the climax of the extravaganza in a dazzling state of flux. (96 letters)

Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner. (71 letters)

Six javelins thrown by the quick savages whizzed forty paces beyond the mark. (64 letters)

The explorer was frozen in his big kayak just after making queer discoveries. (64 letters)

The July sun caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt. (61 letters)

The public was amazed to view the quickness and dexterity of the juggler. (60 letters)

While Suez sailors wax parquet decks, Afghan Jews vomit jauntily abaft. (59 letters)

We quickly seized the black axle and just saved it from going past him. (57 letters)

Six big juicy steaks sizzled in a pan as five workmen left the quarry. (56 letters)

While making deep excavations we found some quaint bronze jewelry. (56 letters)

Jaded zombies acted quaintly but kept driving their oxen forward. (55 letters)

A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent. (54 letters)

The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage earner. (54 letters)

A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint. (53 letters)

Whenever the black fox jumped the squirrel gazed suspiciously. (53 letters)

We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize. (50 letters)

How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts! (49 letters)

Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels. (48 letters)

Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag. (48 letters)

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. (40 letters)

Heavy boxes perform quick waltzes and jigs. (36 letters)

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. (33 letters)

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (32 letters)

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (31 letters)

The five boxing wizards jump quickly. (31 letters)

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (30 letters)

Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. (29 letters)

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. (29 letters)

Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. (28 letters)

Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q. (26 letters)

Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ. (26 letters)

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The big plump jowls of zancy Dick Nixon quiver.

29 letras: “Whisky vert: jugez cinq fox d'aplomb”. {Français}

Gazeta publica hoje breve anúncio de faxina na quermesse

Foi em Pernambuco que vi Jerry Hall degustar kiwi com xerez

Marta foi à cozinha pois queria ver o belo jogo de xícaras

Hoje à noite, sem luz, decidi xeretar a quinta gaveta de vovô: achei lingüiça, pão e fubá

Um pequeno jabuti xereta viu dez cegonhas felizes

Blitz prende ex-vesgo com cheque fajuto

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