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pangram
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A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, phrase, or word, is a sentence, phrase, or word using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing.
A pangram is a sentence, phrase, or word that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams are useful for displaying how typefaces look, testing equipment, and practicing handwriting, calligraphy, and typing skills.
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- Origins
- Short pangrams
- Perfect pangrams
- Other languages
- Using the Latin script
- Azerbaijani
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Ewe
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Kurdish
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Slovak
- Swedish
- Toki Pona
- Turkish
- Welsh
- Vietnamese
- Other alphabetic scripts
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Georgian
- Hebrew
- Punjabi (Shahmukhi)
- Persian
- Russian
- Thai
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Non-alphabetic scripts
- Bengali
- Korean
- Sanskrit
- Self-enumerating pangrams
- Pangrams in literature
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, phrase, or word, is a sentence, phrase, or word using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing.
==Origins== thumb|alt=Screenshot of a font preview in the computer program KFontview. The sample text, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', is printed at different sizes.| Font preview software using the English pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" to demonstrate the typeface Bitstream Vera Sans at different sizes.
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