Letters of the Greek Alphabet - Sudden Death

Can you click the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet without making any mistakes?
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Last updated: April 8, 2026
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Alpha
Beta
Chi
Deka
Delta
Echo
Eos
Epsilon
Eta
Gamma
Gimel
Iota
Kappa
Kilo
Lambda
Lemma
Li
Mu
Nu
Omega
Omicron
Phi
Pho
Pi
Psi
Rex
Rhea
Rho
Sau
Sigma
Tau
Theta
Upsilon
Vega
Xena
Xi
Xu
Zayin
Zed
Zeta
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26 Comments
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Level 72
Jan 30, 2025
You should specify somewhere that you're not using the modern Greek names for the letters - because while they are the same letters, in modern Greek, they are not called like this. For instance : "eta" is "ita" in modern Greek, "beta" is "vita", "upsilon" is "ipsilon", etc.
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Level 94
Jan 30, 2025
I have now added a caveat specifying that the common spellings for the Ancient Greek letters are used. Thank you
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Level 61
Mar 9, 2025
Great quiz, though I must confess I did click Kilo on my first attempt.
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Level 88
Dec 6, 2025
Nice red herrings
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Level 94
Dec 7, 2025
Thank you! That's my favorite part of making sudden death quizzes.
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Level 81
Dec 7, 2025
Knowing a (tiny) bit hebrew made it more difficult to me. The hebrew letters sounded familiar.
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Level 75
Dec 7, 2025
It is Mi and Ni.
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Level 81
Dec 7, 2025
It really isn't.
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Level 78
Dec 17, 2025
I thought that was ridiculous too until I saw that his name is "Constantinos" and thought maybe he knows a thing or two about the Greek alphabet. Turns out he's right. But Mi and Ni are the Greek pronunciations and this is an English quiz. So Mu and Nu are correct in this context. But I learned something.
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Level 63
Dec 18, 2025
this is how we pronounce and write. mi and ni. the guy is literally greek, we know better.
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Level 81
Dec 18, 2025
Being Greek doesn't make you an authority on the English names for ancient Greek letters.
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Level 68
Dec 18, 2025
Does that matter? The quiz says "Greek alphabet," not "English names for ancient Greek letters" and though it was supposedly specified in the caveats, they only added the word "ancient"

Regardless, telling a Greek person that a Greek letter "really isn't" what Greeks literally say it is is ridiculous. It "really" is pronounced and spelled that way, it's just *also* known in English by the *ancient* spelling and pronunciation for math and stuff, but that's not really the "Greek alphabet" lol

They don't need to be an "authority" to say how they spell a word in their native language. Again the caveats and title could be more specific if it's not actually the Greek alphabet and just "English names for ancient Greek letters" like you're saying it is. But no matter how you slice it, "It really isn't." is a fairly ignorant response, and so is you implying they're being arrogant or something for... being Greek on a Greek alphabet quiz??? At the very least it's a helpful bit of clarification.

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Level 81
Dec 21, 2025
What you think of me is irrelevant. You're still wrong.

There are no Greek letters ("α", "β", "γ" ...) amongst the answer options. Neither are there any Latin transliterations of Greek letters ("a", "b", "g" ...). The quiz is clearly asking us to identify the letters by their names.

But their Greek names or their English names? The questions and answers in all the quizzes on this site are in English, except (off the top of my head) where the quizzes are about foreign words and their English equivalents. Consider how dumb someone sounds when on a geography quiz they complain "It's 'Côte d'Ivoire' actuallaaaaay". Or maybe that person is you.

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Level 79
Dec 7, 2025
35 seconds, easy and fun
+3
Level 78
Dec 17, 2025
Pho almost got me. :-)
+2
Level 77
Dec 18, 2025
I could use some Pho right now...
+3
Level 76
Dec 18, 2025
Who knew being in a sorority would make this so easy? Ok but seriously I felt cool doing this quiz
+1
Level 58
Dec 18, 2025
I studied Hebrew and Greek back-to-back in college, so some of those Hebrew letters threw me for a loop
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Level 46
Dec 18, 2025
Learnt them just for fun in sixth grade when we started trigonometry. :)
+3
Level 73
Dec 18, 2025
If you ever had to say the Greek alphabet 3x while holding a burning match, you too could have completed this quiz in under 30 seconds.
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Level 32
Dec 18, 2025
26/26
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Level 49
Dec 19, 2025
Its wrong fix it
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Level 94
Dec 19, 2025
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Level 81
Jan 16, 2026
I think you'd better rename the quiz "English names for letters of the ancient Greek alphabet", or this will never stop.
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Level 45
Feb 4, 2026
What I believe some of the wrong answers come from (spoilers):

Pho is a traditional Vietnamese Noodle Dish

Echo is obviously just a word but a very common code name in spy like movies along with Alpha and Beta

Kilo is obviously for Kilometer

Gimel is a Sign on a Dreidel, a traditional Jewish Toy.

Vega probably just from the creator thinking about what vegetables they had for dinner yesterday while making this quiz.

Rex is from T-Rex or maybe the creator likes toy story, but still T-Rex

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Level 67
Apr 16, 2026
17 seconds first try! Woulda been faster if I wasn't on mobile