{"id":392,"date":"2007-05-23T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/isogram\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T21:57:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T20:57:44","slug":"isogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; isogram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>isogram<\/strong>, noun &#8211; a word in which the letters turn up an equal number of times.<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of isograms depending on how many times each letter appears:<\/p>\n<p>In a first-order isogram, each letter appears just once, as in <strong>dialogue<\/strong>, <strong>lexicography<\/strong>, <strong>ambidextrously<\/strong> and <strong>uncopyrightable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a second-order isogram, each letter appears twice, as in <strong>deed<\/strong>, <strong>Vivienne<\/strong>, <strong>Caucasus<\/strong> and <strong>intestines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a third-order isogram, each letter appears three times. These are rare, unusual words such as <strong>deeded<\/strong> (&#8220;conveyed by deed&#8221;) and <strong>geggee<\/strong> (&#8220;victim of a hoax&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I came across this term in an <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,2082857,00.html\">article<\/a> by David Crystal about his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007235585\/omniglot-21\"><em>By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English<\/em><\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,2082857,00.html\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>isogram, noun &#8211; a word in which the letters turn up an equal number of times. There are different types of isograms depending on how many times each letter appears: In a first-order isogram, each letter appears just once, as in dialogue, lexicography, ambidextrously and uncopyrightable. In a second-order isogram, each letter appears twice, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}