quick brown fox
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
43
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We visited the showroom [of the typewriter company Olivetti], which is just north of Forty-seventh Street, a day or so before it opened, while the last dabs of putty and paint were being hurled into place, and were so carried away by its air of Mediterranean high spirits that we could scarcely refrain from snatching a portable off a pedestal and racking up a “quick brown fox” or two."
- "Well, I was adequate, but typing was something I practiced in every spare moment. And this is where “Shambleau” began, halfway down a sheet of yellow paper otherwise filled up with boring quick-brown-foxes, alphabets, and things like “The White Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly,” to lighten the practice."
- "If you want something other than quick brown foxes, perhaps you'd like a hunk of lorem ipsums?"
- "Not wanting to bother anyone by asking permission at such a busy church, I dragged it [a typewriter] out of the basement to my office, cleaned it off and bought a fresh ink ribbon for it online. I clacked out a few “quick brown foxes” on it and the noise of it brought other folks from the office to my door."