noun
- a piece of writing in which a particular letter of the alphabet is deliberately omitted or avoided
Usage: literary; often used as a writing exercise or artistic constraint
Examples
- The author wrote a lipogram that avoided the letter 'e' throughout the entire novel.
- Creating a lipogram is a challenging word game that tests a writer's vocabulary and creativity.
- In a lipogram, every sentence must be constructed without using a specific letter.
- The famous lipogram by Georges Perec excluded the letter 'e' from his 300-page book.
- Students sometimes write lipograms as an exercise to improve their writing flexibility.