Pangram Checker
Check if text uses every letter of the alphabet.
Overview
A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The checker tells you whether your input qualifies and lists which letters are missing if it doesn't. Optionally measure how close it gets — a 24-of-26 score, for example, with M and Z highlighted as the gaps.
Font designers showing off every glyph in a specimen sheet, typing-test designers, teachers running spelling exercises, and crossword constructors all use pangrams. The classic "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is everywhere because it covers all 26 letters in a memorable sentence.
How it works
The tool extracts every distinct alphabetic character from your input, case-folded, and checks the resulting set against the 26 letters A–Z. If all 26 are present it's a pangram. A "perfect pangram" uses each letter exactly once — much rarer, since natural English needs repeated vowels.
The Unicode-aware version supports alphabets beyond Latin: a Greek pangram is checked against 24 letters, a Russian one against 33, and so on.
Examples
Input: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Output: Pangram — all 26 letters present
Input: Hello world
Output: Not a pangram — missing 19 letters: a, b, c, f, g, i, j, k, m, n, p, q, s, t, u, v, x, y, z
Input: Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
Output: Pangram — all 26 letters present
FAQ
What's a perfect pangram?
A pangram that uses each letter exactly once. They're very hard in English: "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" is a famous 26-letter attempt that requires abbreviations.
Why do font designers use pangrams?
A pangram exercises every letter, so a single line of text in a sample document demonstrates the typeface across its full Latin range — uppercase and lowercase, all 26 shapes.
Are there pangrams in other languages?
Yes. German, French, Spanish, Russian, Greek and many others all have well-known pangrams. The checker can be configured to validate against any alphabet you specify.