16 clever pangrams for word lovers
Word puzzles can help writers build confidence and creativity. Try creating pangrams of your own to test your skills.
Editor’s note: This article is a re-run as part of our countdown of top stories from the past year.
How often does every letter in the alphabet appear in a sentence?
That’s exactly what makes a “pangram” special. The most well-known such phrase is: “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.”
Pangrams have been used for years to teach handwriting and typing—and to test typewriters, telegraphs, printers, typefaces and software. Graphic and font designers use pangrams to illustrate their work.
For many pangram enthusiasts, the best pangrams are those with the fewest letters. “Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx.” is considered a “perfect pangram” because it contains only 26 letters.
Although these are undoubtedly the most difficult pangrams to write, cleverness and clarity should can make a pangram shine, too. Here are some extra creative pangrams (ordered by letter count).
1. The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
2. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
3. Go, lazy fat vixen; be shrewd, jump quick.
4. When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.
5. Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
6. Puzzled women bequeath jerks very exotic gifts.
7. The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf.
8. Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him.
9. Watch “Jeopardy!”, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game.
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10. Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz.
11. Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by the tower.
12. Jack amazed a few girls by dropping the antique onyx vase.
13. A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.
14. Jaded zombies acted quaintly but kept driving their oxen forward.
15. No kidding—Lorenzo called off his trip to Mexico City just because they told him the conquistadors were extinct.
And here is my own pangram:
16. Quixotic jugglers repent; wave away fake methods and brazen mishaps.
How about you PR Daily readers? Do you have a pangram of your own to share?
Laura Hale Brockway is an Austin-based writer and editor and a regular contributor to PR Daily. Read more of her posts on writing and word play at impertinentremarks.com.
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Patchwork quilt just muzzles baffled young vixen.
yes Beth, I quick solve exotic pangram word puzzles in a jiff
NICE!
Quizzical twins proved my hijack-bug fix!
Fake bugs put in wax jonquils drive him crazy.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” Gosh! So difficult! I think we need to teach these to our kids too! So amazing!”
His quick lynx paw grazed my tuft, by jove!
Sphynx of black quartz, judge my vow of sapphire.
The brown fox-terrior brazenly jumps quickly over the bulldog
The cheeky brown fox-terrier quite brazenly kept jumping over the sleeping bulldog.
A pangram written over the queen’s zebra amazed the light-hearted jester
I didn’t know that there was such a thing as a “perfect” pangram.
The quickest, brownest fox, a cheeky one, jumped over the laziest dog.
Oxyl foxes at a beach delivered pepperoni pizza with tomato ketchup, gasps, and in HAPPINESS, that they wouldn’t judge, and munched on the pizza, questioning theirselves, “How does this pizza with red toppings tastes really good?” and then voxel oxes came to the island where the foxes were.
Fuzzy brown plaque makes the dog joke toxic. v.
Very lazy queen was dying to pack the box of jam
“Pangrams” are quite delightful, but sizy ex-jocks take a dim view.
The quick, brown Shih-tzu/Westie yapped like a goofy, vexed, snarky boojum.
Fudge jack-in-the-box quiz with sly power move.
How vexingly quick daft zebras jump.
what a load of rubbish said the man who can’t sleep!
Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex (28)
oswald oscillated ovally alligator vexen. b. f. h. j. k. m. p. q. u. z.
Six crazy wives quickly put ten boxes of jam in the doggy bag.