Does anyone know of a 26 letter word or phrase thast uses each letter in the English alphabet only once?

Answer 1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

This has all 26 letters in a very short sentence, but it uses several letters more than once. (Lots of Os.)

Here's another from the Oxford English Dictionary:

"These things are called pangrams, and the most famous is the one typists use to test their keyboards: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. We don't know of a sentence that only uses each letter once, but there is a 28-letter example that uses the letters "i" and "u" twice: Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox."

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/pangram

Answer 2

A Blue Car Drove East Following Gargage Handlers In Jamaica, Kids Laying Motionless Noticed Orange People Quietly Reading Stories To Unusually Vociferous Women Xeroxing Young Zebras. (I notice the question didn't say that it had to necessarily make sense...)

Answer 3

The closest that anybody has managed is 26 letters and an apostrophe. This sentence says that some taletellers were annoyed by the rock carvings in a Welsh valley :-

QUARTZ CWM GLYPH JOB VEX'D FINKS

Answer 4

That's impossible to do with only 5-6 vowels.

Answer 5

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

It contains every letter, but some are more than once. Sorry, best I could find.

Answer 6

'Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs'contains some letters more than once.

Answer 7

IVE NEVER EVEN SEEN A WORD LIKE THAT! TELL US WHEN YOU FIND IT