pangram

plural pangrams

1. A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.

   Write a Python function to determine whether or not a string is a pangram.

   2016, Jeeva Jose, Sojan P. Lal, Introduction to Computing & Problem Solving with Python, page 177

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   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.

   1873 March 28, unknown, “Word-Play”, in The Proof-Sheet

   Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people.

   1986, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games

2. crosswordingA crossword puzzle in which every letter appears in the completed grid.

   I've always wanted to make an anti-pangram pangram puzzle - the NYT would never run something so self-mocking!

   2021 December 31, Hayley Gold, Letters to Margaret, Lone Shark Games, →ISBN, page 62

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   A pangram (or, as some manage, the triple pangram, with at least three of every letter) restricts the options, directing the setter away from habits and repetition and towards a fresher puzzle.

   2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN