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isogram

isogram noun: a word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once.

Noun

isogram (plural isograms)

  1. 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
  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

pluralisograms

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

  1. isograds
  2. isograft
  3. isografted
  4. isografting
  5. isografts
  6. isogram
  7. isograms
  8. isogramy
  9. isograph
  10. isographic
  11. isographical

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