What is the shortest sentence that uses all 26 letters?

Q: What is the shortest sentence that has all the letters?

So the following sentence was developed: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. It is an English language pangram”, which means that it contains all letters of the alphabet, and has been used by generations of keyboard testers and touch-typing students.

The mechanical typewriters of our grandparents had to be tested to make sure that every key was working fine. So the following sentence was developed: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.

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Is there a sentence with all 26 letters?
What is the shortest sentence that has all the letters?
Is there a 26 letter word?
Which sentence has a to z all letters?

It is an “English language pangram”, which means that it contains all letters of the alphabet, and has been used by generations of keyboard testers and touch-typing students.

Nowadays, the sentence it is still widely used by font publishers to display all letters of each font type. Microsoft even added the function “rand()” in Word 2003 to display the sentence (it is “rand.old()” in newer versions).

There are two interesting facts about this sentence:

The original sentence, as published in 1885 in the The Michigan School Moderator, was actually “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, which is 2 letters shorter.
Since then, a shorter similar sentence has been found. It has only 39 letters, so 4 less than the one in use. It is “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs“.

Anyway, it’s probably a bit late to convince font publishers to switch to a shorter sentence, so the quick brown fox can keep jumping without fear!

Shashi Tharoor has a way with words. Be it the Oxford Union debate or his non-fiction prose, the former UN official and member of India's parliament can certainly stimulate and provoke with words.

On Sunday afternoon, Tharoor chose a new playground: Facebook.

He took on the age-old pangram 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' (32 letters) and challenged it with a new, shorter one. A pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 alphabets of the English language.

Tharoor mentioned 'Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs', containing 31 letters, and 'How quickly daft jumping zebras vex', having 30 letters, oblivious to the fact that further shorter ones exist too.

Sample this list.

'Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.' That's 29 letters.

'Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.' That's 28.

And then you have the most perfect pangram. 26 letters.

'Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.'

Tharoor, meanwhile, continued his pursuits on Twitter. One user tweaked the old 32-lettered one to make it shorter.

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The Indian writer-turned-politician's Sunday occupation invited some interesting reactions.

Credit: facebook screengrab

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Any new pangrams, yougaiz?

Is there a sentence with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”

What is the shortest sentence that has all the letters?

So the following sentence was developed: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. It is an “English language pangram”, which means that it contains all letters of the alphabet, and has been used by generations of keyboard testers and touch-typing students.

Is there a 26 letter word?

The longest official geographical name in Australia is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya. It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning "where the Devil urinates".

Which sentence has a to z all letters?

The Answer: A sentence using all the letters in the alphabet is called a pangram (from the Greek for "every letter"). "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the most famous pangram, but there are many others.