Pangram Checker
Check if text is a pangram — contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. See missing letters and famous pangram examples.
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Famous Pangrams
About the Pangram Checker
A pangram is a sentence or phrase that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The most famous pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" — used by typographers and keyboard testers for over a century. A "near pangram" is missing only 1–3 letters. A "perfect pangram" uses each letter exactly once (very difficult in English). This checker is case-insensitive and ignores punctuation, spaces, and numbers.
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What this tool is used for
- Checking whether a sentence uses every letter of the alphabet.
- Verifying a pangram you have written for a typography specimen.
- Finding which letters a candidate sentence is missing.
- Choosing a font specimen sentence that exercises every glyph.
- Setting or solving a word puzzle about letter coverage.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a pangram?
- A sentence containing every letter of the alphabet at least once. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the canonical English example at 35 letters, and it survives because it is short, grammatical and easy to remember.
- What is a perfect pangram?
- One that uses each letter exactly once — 26 letters total. English has very few that are also readable, because the vowel distribution fights it; most published examples rely on proper nouns or archaic words to work at all.
- Why are pangrams used for font specimens?
- Because a typeface has to be judged on every glyph, and a pangram exercises all 26 in a natural sentence rather than an alphabet strip. It shows letterforms in context — spacing, joins, how a `g` sits next to an `o` — which a list of letters cannot.
- How does the checker treat case and punctuation?
- Both are ignored — matching is case-insensitive and only A–Z counts, so digits, spaces and punctuation are skipped. What it reports is which letters are still missing, which is more useful than a yes or no when you are trying to construct one.
- Do other languages have pangrams?
- Yes, and they are harder in alphabets with more letters or with diacritics that may or may not count. Japanese has the Iroha, a poem using every kana exactly once — a perfect pangram that also served as an alphabetical ordering for centuries.
Common errors and gotchas
- Counting case-sensitively, so a sentence fails because a letter appears only capitalised.
- Assuming the English 26-letter alphabet applies to another language.
- Ignoring accented characters, which may or may not count depending on the question.
- Treating a perfect pangram — every letter exactly once — as the same thing as a pangram.
- Checking coverage but not readability, which is what a specimen sentence is actually for.
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