The Weekly Challenge

09. TASK #1: Abecedarian Words

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Task 1: Abecedarian Words

Submitted by: Ryan J Thompson

An abecedarian word is a word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order. For example, “knotty” is an abecedarian word, but “knots” is not. Output or return a list of all abecedarian words in the dictionary, sorted in decreasing order of length.

Optionally, using only abecedarian words, leave a short comment in your code to make your reviewer smile.

Task 2: Pangrams

Submitted by: Ryan J Thompson

A pangram is a sentence or phrase that uses every letter in the English alphabet at least once. For example, perhaps the most well known pangram is:

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Using the provided dictionary, so that you don’t need to include individual copy, generate at least one pangram.

Your pangram does not have to be a syntactically valid English sentence (doing so would require far more work, and a dictionary of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions). Also note that repeated letters, and even repeated words, are permitted.

BONUS: Constrain or optimize for something interesting (completely up to you), such as:

Shortest possible pangram (difficult)
Pangram which contains only abecedarian words (see challenge 1)
Pangram such that each word "solves" exactly one new letter. For example, such a pangram might begin with (newly solved letters in bold):
    a ah hi hid die ice tea ...
    What is the longest possible pangram generated with this method? (All solutions will contain 26 words, so focus on the letter count.)
Pangrams that have the weirdest (PG-13) Google image search results
Anything interesting goes!

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 24th April 2022.