Definition of Lipogram. Meaning of Lipogram. Synonyms of Lipogram

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Definition of Lipogram

Lipogram
Lipogram Lip"o*gram (l[i^]p"[-o]*gr[a^]m; 277), n. [Gr. lei`pein, lipei^n, to leave, omit + -gram.] A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Meaning of Lipogram from wikipedia

- A lipogram (from Ancient Gr****: λειπογράμματος, leipográmmatos, "leaving out a letter"[citation needed]) is a kind of constrained writing or word game...
- English. A work that deliberately avoids certain letters is known as a lipogram. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which...
- of Life: A User's Manual. As well as established techniques, such as lipograms (Perec's novel A Void) and palindromes, the group devises new methods...
- Pangrammatic lipogram Pandigital number Heterogram - word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once Lipogram, in which...
- written that omit the letter e altogether — a form of literature known as a lipogram. The first known recorded explanation of frequency analysis (indeed, of...
- the right-hand side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is crwths. Lipogram List of long species names List of the longest English words with one syllable...
- English is E. This makes it a hard and po****r letter to use when writing lipograms. Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939) is considered a "dreadful" novel...
- engram, epigram, epigrammatic, grammar, grammatic, grammaticist, hologram, lipogram, monogram, pangrammatic, pentagram, program, programmatic, telegram, telegramme...
- Arabic letter frequency English word frequency Letter frequency effect Lipogram RSTLNE (Wheel of Fortune) American Morse code was developed in the 1830s...
- Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939 novel Gadsby, written entirely in lipogram, was unable to find a publisher for his work and ultimately chose to publish...