Get to know Lipogram better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like text.
Lipogram meaning
A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.
Synonyms of Lipogram
Using Lipogram
- The main meaning on this page is: A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.
- Useful related words include: text, textual matter.
- In the example corpus, lipogram often appears in combinations such as: the lipogram, pangrammatic lipogram, lipogram is.
Context around Lipogram
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lipogram
- In this selection, "lipogram" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pangrammatic, longest, word, page and continued stand out and add context to how "lipogram" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pangrammatic lipogram is a and a pangrammatic lipogram or lipogrammatic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lipogram" sits close to words such as aardwolf, aargau and abacos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lipogram
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
History The word lipogram is not always included in dictionaries. (10 words)
This tends to be the most difficult form of the lipogram. (11 words)
A pangrammatic lipogram is a text that uses every letter of the alphabet except one. (15 words)
Dropping letters Another type of lipogram, which omits every instance of a letter from words that would otherwise contain it, as opposed to finding other words that do not contain the letter, was recorded by Willard R. Espy in 181 Missing O's. (43 words)
La Disparition is, to date, the longest lipogram in existence. citation Analysing lipograms In his book Rethinking Writing, Roy Harris notes that without the ability to analyse language, the lipogram would be unable to exist. (35 words)
Jacques Bens, Claude Berge, and Paul Braffort, History of the Lipogram, page 101, 102. There is a tradition of German and Italian lipograms excluding the letter R dating from the seventeenth century until modern times. (35 words)
Example sentences (9)
La Disparition is, to date, the longest lipogram in existence. citation Analysing lipograms In his book Rethinking Writing, Roy Harris notes that without the ability to analyse language, the lipogram would be unable to exist.
Pangrammatic lipogram A pangrammatic lipogram or lipogrammatic pangram uses every letter of the alphabet except one.
A pangrammatic lipogram is a text that uses every letter of the alphabet except one.
Dropping letters Another type of lipogram, which omits every instance of a letter from words that would otherwise contain it, as opposed to finding other words that do not contain the letter, was recorded by Willard R. Espy in 181 Missing O's.
History The word lipogram is not always included in dictionaries.
Jacques Bens, Claude Berge, and Paul Braffort, History of the Lipogram, page 101, 102. There is a tradition of German and Italian lipograms excluding the letter R dating from the seventeenth century until modern times.
Non-literary lipograms While a lipogram is usually limited to literary works, there are also chromatic lipograms, works of music that avoid the use of certain notes.
This tends to be the most difficult form of the lipogram.
While some authors excluded other letters, it was the exclusion of the R which ensured the practice of the lipogram continued into modern times.
Common combinations with lipogram
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lipogram 4×
- pangrammatic lipogram 3×
- lipogram is 3×