Pangrams

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. You can learn more about pangrams on Wikipedia, as well as view a list of pangrams in different languages at list of pangrams.

Example Pangrams

The most famous pangram is:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Here are some example pangrams:

Both fickle dwarves jinx my pig quiz.

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
All questions asked by five watched experts amaze the judge.

Every good cow, fox, squirrel, and zebra likes to jump over happy dogs.

Halloween Pangrams

Here are a few more pangrams in the spirit of Halloween:

Quick fox jumps nightly above wizard.
The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf.
Painful zombies quickly watch a jinxed graveyard.
Grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen.

Pangram Code

You can find code for checking if a sentence is a pangram at Rosetta Code. For example, here is some Java code:


public static boolean isPangram(String test){
    for (char a = 'A'; a <= 'Z'; a++)
        if ((test.indexOf(a) < 0) && (test.indexOf((char)(a + 32)) < 0))
            return false;
    return true;
}

Quick Brown Fox

There are many versions of this pangram with different sizes. For example:

32	Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
33	The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
35	The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
37	The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.