Meanings
plural isograms
- A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
For convenience, we can refer to an isogram of order n as an n-isogram. The examples in (2a) are 1-isograms, (2b) 2-isograms, and (2c) 3-isograms. Second- and third-order isograms are also sometimes referred to as pair and trio isograms respectively, but I will not use these terms here.
2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
isogram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/isogram
“isogram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/isogram. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “isogram,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/isogram.
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