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Letters that Don't Start a U.S. State

Which letters of the alphabet are NOT the first letter of a U.S. state?
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Last updated: November 7, 2025
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First submittedNovember 7, 2025
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28 Comments
+29
Level 45
Nov 8, 2025
This quiz is way harder than it looks..
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2025
Right. I really feel like I know my states and I was thinking hard on this one. Perfect amount of time to not allow you to run through the alphabet!
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Level 29
Dec 4, 2025
You can't run through the alphabet anyway as 2 mistakes and you're out.
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Level 86
Nov 8, 2025
Unless you're a nerd like me who memorised the US states by remembering how many there are by initial letter (4 As, 3 Cs, D, F, G, H, 4 Is, 2 Ks, L, 8 Ms, 8 Ns, 3 Os, P, R, 2 Ss, 2 Ts, U, 2 Vs, 4Ws).

Then it's really easy.

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Level 66
Nov 8, 2025
You are a sad, sad puppy .😊 Fun quiz!
+3
Level 86
Nov 10, 2025
Guilty as charged!
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2025
My hero!
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Level 90
Nov 9, 2025
And quite impressive, considering you're not American (or you would have spelled memorize the way we do).
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2025
Yes, I've done exactly the same. Only way I could learn them as a non-American and I'd struggle to list them in anything other than alphabetical order. But I still don't know where half of them are!
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Level 34
Nov 8, 2025
Perfectly said. Perfectly said.
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Level 25
Dec 4, 2025
Yea it is
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Level 50
May 9, 2026
its so not

i got it with 41 seconds left by going through the alphabet

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Level 82
Nov 8, 2025
I like how the letters are not listed in alphabetical order
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Level 89
Nov 8, 2025
They are listed in the order of the number of states that don't start with that letter, obviously.
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Level 76
Nov 9, 2025
I thought it was in the order of size the states would be if they started with that letter.
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Level 71
Nov 26, 2025
They are random. It changed between my plays. It also says at the top
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Level 26
Nov 13, 2025
4 seconds.
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Level 69
Dec 4, 2025
Got it on my first try with one second spare. I couldn't figure out the last letter and I had made one mistake already, I literally typed any letter on the keyboard as if i waited any longer I'd fail anyway and I was lucky.
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Level 55
Dec 4, 2025
I got them in alphabetical order and then I saw the caveat...
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Level 70
Dec 4, 2025
Full marks for The Robbster.
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Level 81
Dec 4, 2025
Needs to account for Jefferson.
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Level 62
Dec 4, 2025
What???
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Level 61
Dec 4, 2025
I feel like using letters not used by the English language should neither count nor be a whammy... :D Unforunately, tried that as my second whammy and ended early.
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Level 61
Dec 4, 2025
I low-key got really lucky and got it first try in 22 seconds.
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Level 40
Dec 4, 2025
so like I just went through my keyboard and went "which letter sounds like it doesn't have a state?" ....I got them all pretty fast
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Level 17
Dec 8, 2025
I needed to sin the ABC's༼ つ ಥ_ಥ ༽つ
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Level 50
Mar 31, 2026
3 tries, 0:04 when i got it. wanna know how?

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i cheated.

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Level 65
Apr 17, 2026
Clearly omitting Blorshington and Quesquehannah