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Letters of the Greek Alphabet

You shouldn't have to be in a frat or sorority to name at least a few Greek letters. But if you are, can you name them all?
As spelled in the English language
When you guess the letter, it will appear in English and Greek
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Last updated: September 4, 2018
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First submittedJanuary 5, 2013
Times taken588,271
Average score62.5%
Rating4.97
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Letter
Αα
Alpha
Ββ
Beta
Γγ
Gamma
Δδ
Delta
Εε
Epsilon
Ζζ
Zeta
Letter
Ηη
Eta
Θθ
Theta
Ιι
Iota
Κκ
Kappa
Λλ
Lambda
Μμ
Mu
Letter
Νν
Nu
Ξξ
Xi
Οο
Omicron
Ππ
Pi
Ρρ
Rho
Σσς
Sigma
Letter
Ττ
Tau
Υυ
Upsilon
Φφ
Phi
Χχ
Chi
Ψψ
Psi
Ωω
Omega
100 Recent Comments
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Level 67
Apr 8, 2019
If this is ancient greek, then should we add: Sampi, Koppa, San, Heta, and Zigamma.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/greek.html

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Level 45
May 24, 2019
I don't think you need to, they are abandoned letters.
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Level 24
Aug 18, 2019
This is modern greek, not ancient as stated. The ancient alphabet also contained 3 more symbols: digamma (stigma), koppa and sampi.
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Level 31
Sep 5, 2019
I know Greek alphabet, but don't know English spelling for it. Lol
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Level 20
Sep 5, 2019
KappaPride
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Level 23
Sep 8, 2019
In Poland its mi and ni not mu or nu... Plus Ypsilon.
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Level 20
Nov 24, 2019
I can sing the whole greek alphabet, but I cant spell any. ...huh interesting...
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Level 32
Dec 30, 2024
same
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Level 44
Jan 6, 2020
Thank you ADPi pledge class of 2016 for requiring me to learn this information
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Level 19
Jan 30, 2020
If nobody realized, 4 of those are also the names of the 4 starter characters in 'Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime' :) (pi, epsilon, mu, and nu)
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Level 61
Feb 28, 2024
That's how I remembered those four lol
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Level 75
Feb 8, 2020
This is too easy, do it with a yellow box. I know them in order XD not flexing XD
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Level 55
Jan 3, 2025
You literally are flexing
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Level 56
Feb 8, 2020
The distinction between modern and ancient Greek alphabet makes absolutely no sense because ancient and modern Greek language have the same letters.

An explanation that "Anglo-Saxon pronounciation and writing is required (even though some letters have a totally weird writing) " would be far better!!

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Level ∞
Feb 9, 2020
Thanks for the feedback. I changed the caveat. I was thrown off the track by previous commenters.
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Level 23
Feb 21, 2020
13/24, knew the first 8 immediatly plus Omega and Sigma, then sat around for two minutes before I got 3 more...
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Level 67
Feb 24, 2020
24/24, but I have Greek at school, so...
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Level 53
Mar 27, 2020
24/24 I am 8, I never went to Greece, I never learned greek, and I am not in college yet.
+3
Level 30
Mar 29, 2020
I am Greek and have lived in Athens my whole life so this quiz was the first exercise I had in 1st grade lol
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Level 63
May 10, 2020
24/24. My 1st grade Greek memory is still fresh in my brain ;)
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Level 34
Jun 18, 2020
Does anyone have every single badge or not?

I really want to know since Quizmaster doesn't.

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Level 16
Jun 27, 2020
hi took me 10 seconds to finish this test and i have never done any greek. Only went there on holiday once
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Level 67
Jul 10, 2020
I am greek and i only got 20. what the hell is this spelling? i couldnt write most letters.
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Level 43
Jul 13, 2020
Can you accept omikron as well as omicron?
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Level 47
Aug 23, 2020
omg first try all correct and I am Korean
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Level 69
Sep 25, 2020
i am Greek and didnt find all! check your spelling please. There is no Mu or Nu letters in the greek alphabet. There is Mi and Ni. Also there is Ypsilon -for heavens sake, the Ypsilon letter without Y in your spelling!! And there is Taf (surely not tau)
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Level 69
Oct 14, 2020
MY EYES BLED
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Level 66
Jan 3, 2022
English Spellings. read the caveats, people!
+4
Level 39
Apr 13, 2022
It still should support the Greek spelling...
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Level 69
Oct 12, 2020
I just had troubles finding how to write chi.

Never had a greek course, just the students who had greek were singing the alphabet, so I had it phonetically at least, I just had to find the right way to write it

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Level 49
Dec 6, 2020
Being Catholic I got: Alpha, Omega, Chi, Rho.

The others from my brain: Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Xi, Psi.

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Level 49
Dec 28, 2020
As a math guy im so dissapointed at myself cause i didnt get Tau. Smh
+2
Level 44
Jan 31, 2021
finally that master's in mathematics came useful
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Level 21
Feb 8, 2021
it's rlly hard a bit 2 hard for some
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Level 28
Feb 15, 2021
2:50

5/24

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Level 28
Feb 17, 2021
2:46

Scoring

You scored 7/24 = 29%

This beats or equals 19.2% of test takers

The average score is 15

Your high score is 7

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Level 28
Feb 18, 2021
2:47

Scoring

You scored 7/24 = 29%

This beats or equals 19.2% of test takers

The average score is 15

Your high score is 7

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Level 60
Mar 3, 2021
I had to memorize these in my European history class in high school. Surprised that I still remember them all. The teacher taught us to say "iota kappa lambda mu nu" to the tune of shave and a haircut.
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Level 56
Mar 9, 2021
You forgot ligma.
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Level 60
Mar 17, 2021
My 20 of 24 was entirely from grade seven rote memorization... Amazing considering that was more than 35 years ago!
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Level 47
Sep 6, 2021
My 31 out of 24 was entirely from rote memorization before I was born... amazing considering that was 24 billion years ago!
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Level 53
Mar 22, 2021
How the effing eff did I forget pi? PI!!!! I FORGOT PI!
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Level 32
Apr 3, 2021
I finished with just 1minute
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Level 66
Sep 6, 2021
Wasn't in a frat; never been to Greece; but I saw Revenge Of The Nerds.
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Level 72
Sep 6, 2021
I got most of these from Mathematics and seeing campus Greek life in American films.

Only one I didn't get was omicron. I guess it's not used in either.

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Level 66
Jan 3, 2022
A couple months later and we’ll never miss that again…
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Level 50
Mar 13, 2022
Yes exactly, we all know what happened
+6
Level 94
Sep 6, 2021
something tells me the stats for delta will be going up.
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Level 28
Sep 7, 2021
As an engineer it would have surprised me to miss any.

A joke among engineering students is "I never knew I was going to learn a new alphabet."

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Level 84
Oct 8, 2021
Have you considered a career in standup?
+4
Level 44
Oct 25, 2021
I'm surprised that sigma is only guessed by 63%
+7
Level 22
Nov 29, 2021
I wonder how COVID variants will impact quiz scores...
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Level 68
Dec 5, 2021
Well, I for one didn't know omicron was a Greek letter until recently...
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Level 49
Dec 10, 2021
just guess covid variants lmao
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Level 66
Jan 3, 2022
*watches as Delta and Omicron rise in percentages*
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Level 70
Jan 10, 2022
just naming the covid varients
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Level 42
Jan 25, 2022
At this point that should be the quiz name
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Level 37
Feb 8, 2022
Where's sigma😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
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Level 26
Mar 9, 2022
I was quite surprised to score around 20 by just studying physics in school lmao
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Level 39
Apr 13, 2022
I got 20 but why didn't it accept "khi" ?
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Level 49
May 2, 2022
Bruh it's not mu or nu it's mi and ni
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Level 35
Jun 15, 2022
i would've gotten 100% if i hadn't spelt chi like khi
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Level 55
Jun 15, 2022
Could 'Fie' and 'Opsilon' be type-ins for Phi and Upsilon? I tried both a few times and was wondering why it didnt work
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Level 67
Jun 17, 2022
I am Greek and couldn't name them. We don't pronounce them that way
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Level 35
Apr 7, 2024
I have a friend who learned all of the Greek letters and how to pronounce them. I can confirm it is pronounced differently than how its spelled.
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Level 59
Sep 2, 2022
in the US, you would do well on this quiz as either a frat-boy or a math/physics wizard. Quite the opposite ends of the spectrum (very little overlap there, ha)
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Level 47
Nov 9, 2022
not in greek life, just an engineer. 17/24
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Level 37
Nov 24, 2022
Got all pf then exept lambda. I am dutch and it is spelled labda there
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Level 26
Nov 26, 2022
I got all 24/24 in 3 seconds right after coming out of the womb, i'm english and know absolutely nothing about greece
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Level 46
Jan 6, 2023
bro whyd i win this with alphabet lore ;-;
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Level 46
Feb 11, 2023
i missed 5, i need to connect with my heritage more 😭
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Level 39
Apr 14, 2023
Further maths and physics student lol
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Level 28
Apr 18, 2023
As a greek, i can confirm i struggled a lot. We write it a lot diferent(sory for my spelling).
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Level 38
Apr 18, 2023
SIGMA
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Level 38
Apr 23, 2023
I would like to take a moment to thank JP Beaubien's book, Doctor Eggman's E-100 series, COVID variants, thesuzerain's Pokemon fangames, and SCP MTFs
+2
Level 17
May 3, 2023
thanks Earthbound for easy points
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Level 2
May 3, 2023
I am French so I wrote Psy with a Y lol
+3
Level 22
Aug 3, 2023
im fluent in greek i just cant spell them in english
+4
Level 62
Dec 15, 2023
Bro what is Mu Nu and Tau💀. In Greek is Μι Νι and Ταφ (Mi, Ni, Taf). As a Greek I'm slightly offended and confused
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Level 22
Jan 14, 2024
Bruh.. how could I have not known "Sigma"
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Level 46
Jan 28, 2024
I’ve seen some of these in my math classes
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Level 35
Feb 14, 2024
My social studies teacher taught my class a song to learn the Greek alphabet and we got extra credit if we memorized the song... thanks Mrs. Vollmer.
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Level 39
Feb 16, 2024
24/24 in 1:04. I teach Greek mythology and history, so I knew all of these.
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Level 48
Feb 24, 2024
Great practice quiz!
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Level 48
Feb 24, 2024
Props to people who got the ones that appear in math.
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Level 28
Mar 12, 2024
surely it's not possible to get lambda, theta, rho, delta, all the math stuff, and then miss pi, right?

RIGHT???

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Level 15
Apr 3, 2024
I missed iota 😭
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Level 43
Apr 29, 2024
I only got beta and sigma
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Level 68
May 23, 2024
petition for omikron to be accepted in addition to omicron. Greek has no 'c', just the 'k' (kappa)
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Level 51
Jun 17, 2024
I am the Alpha Sigma.
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Level 77
Aug 18, 2024
At least in greek words will always be spelt how they sound, it's just that a lot of letters make the same sound, so you have to memorize basically all words on which eh sound or which ee sound or which o sound to use.
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Level 56
Sep 10, 2024
16/24 and I had no idea I knew any letters in the Greek alphabet....
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Level 58
Sep 20, 2024
being an engineering student helps lol
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Level 54
Oct 24, 2024
brainrot helped me get alpha, beta, and sigma
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Level 32
Dec 10, 2024
i only knew psi bc of twenty one pilots
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Level 39
Dec 10, 2024
i misspelled psi and xi as zi
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Level 32
Dec 10, 2024
Forgot "Sir"

be at the chapter house in 30 minutes or you're f**ked

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Level 28
Dec 10, 2024
I got sigma! 😕😢😭😭😭😭
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Level 28
Mar 30, 2025
sigma
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Level 23
May 29, 2025
I FORGOT THE GOLDEN RATIO WHAT