isogram
isogram noun: a word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
Noun
isogram (plural isograms)
- A word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
- For convenience, we can refer to an isogram of order n as an n-isogram. The examples in (2a) are 1-isograms, (2b) 2-isograms, and (2c) 3-isograms. Second- and third-order isograms are also sometimes referred to as pair and trio isograms respectively, but I will not use these terms here.2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor University, page 2
- A line on a map or chart, such as a contour line, joining points that have the same value for some quantity.
Synonyms of isogram
Forms of isogram
| plural | isograms |
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Origin of isogram
From iso- + -gram. The "contour line" sense was proposed in 1889 by Francis Galton.
Words formed from isogram
Questions about isogram
- What does isogram mean?
- Isogram means a word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.
- What part of speech is isogram?
- Isogram is a noun.
- What is the plural of isogram?
- The plural of isogram is isograms.
Words near isogram in the dictionary
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