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hi everyone.......
recently someone told me that a list of words can be prepared in which all of the alphabets(A-Z)are contained without repeating a single alphabet.......is it true, how can i get this list of words...i tried using anagram engines on net but they reject it as input is 26 letter long.........
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There just aren't that many 26 letter words that any one word contains the exact 26 letters of the alphabet, much less a list of them.
A pangram is a sentence which contains all 26 letters but they are allowed to repeat, afaik there is not one only 26 letters long. For example, "Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox" has 28 letters because it uses i and u twice.
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i once read an article in which about 8-9 words were mentioned that use all aphabets without repeating any of them.......unfortunately i lost that article 
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Hi, newbee: just to clarify: when you say "alphabets" do you mean "letters in the alphabet"? If that's the case, then I've only seen phrases, like the one Myridon cited, but never a list of words.
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at askoxford.com you can find this:
We don't know of a sentence that only uses each letter once, but there is a 28-letter example that uses the letters "i" and "u" twice: Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox.
this certainly suggests the unliklihood of there being any word(s) that is comprised of each letter only once!
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tsu: Bet you 10 cents that it's been done
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Quote:
tsu: Bet you 10 cents that it's been done
you're on! -- if so, I'd love to add it to the wwftd collection.
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i once read an article in which about 8-9 words were mentioned...
I would be surprised if there are 8 "legitimate" words of 26 letters.
A 26 letter word with each letter occuring only once would only have 5 vowels + y. I'm too lazy to do the exact anaylsis but the word would have to have more than one sequence of 5 or more consonants like AcccccEcccccIcccccOcccccUY or ccccccccccccOUcccccAcccccIEcccccccccccY etc. Not going to be very pronouncable is it?
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Pay up tsuwm,
hymns pdq fox t'wuz jerk glib vac
"pdq" is too a word and "vac" is Brit speak for "vacation" and
"hymn's jerk t'wuz glib fox",
so there.
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Pay up tsuwm,
.. so there.
sorry, them; the bet (as I understood it) was on a single word.
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