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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 taken491,663
Average score62.5%
Rating4.92
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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
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Level 66
Jul 25, 2018
Got 13, no one in my family has ever been in a frat or sorority but I knew the ones I knew from common sense or scientific/mathematical terms.
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Level 70
Aug 8, 2018
I guess only the most guessed five letters! 😂
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Level 33
Aug 23, 2018
I owe my 17/24 to being a STEM major.
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Level 63
Dec 18, 2018
24/24, but I did have two years of Greek in Seminary.
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Level 55
Jan 2, 2019
2:31 left. Thanks math!
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Level 48
Jan 25, 2019
Lambda Lambda Lambda!
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Level 41
Jan 27, 2019
I was typing 'Omikron' instead of 'Omicron'😑😑😑
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Level 71
Jan 31, 2019
Good quiz, for a harder Greek Alphabet puzzle try 'Hidden with a twist'........... here it is
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Level 41
Feb 1, 2019
This is missing the last letter, SIR
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Level 74
Feb 4, 2019
24/24:

I'm a little mad and learnt the russian, greek and hebrew alphabet for 'fun' XD.

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Level 79
Mar 13, 2019
Great! :)
+5
Level 81
Feb 4, 2019
I'm Greek and misspelled 'rho' and 'upsilon'

Who would write Y using a U? Seriously?

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Level 79
Mar 13, 2019
'Ypsilon' is the German spelling, and incidentally is also the German name of the letter 'y' in German!
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Level 79
Mar 13, 2019
I only got alpha, beta, gamma, delta, theta and omega - I knew these because of Maths and Physics (forgot sigma). I typed 'ypsilon' as it is a German letter (I'm learning German) but didn't bother to change the first letter although I initially intended to!
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Level 48
Mar 13, 2019
Please accept Ypsilon
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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 46
May 24, 2019
I don't think you need to, they are abandoned letters.
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Level 25
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 21
Nov 24, 2019
I can sing the whole greek alphabet, but I cant spell any. ...huh interesting...
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Level 45
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 60
Feb 28, 2024
That's how I remembered those four lol
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Level 74
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
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 64
Feb 24, 2020
24/24, but I have Greek at school, so...
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Level 51
Mar 27, 2020
24/24 I am 8, I never went to Greece, I never learned greek, and I am not in college yet.
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Level 31
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 55
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 68
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 48
Aug 23, 2020
omg first try all correct and I am Korean
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Level 66
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 66
Oct 14, 2020
MY EYES BLED
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2022
English Spellings. read the caveats, people!
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Level 34
Apr 13, 2022
It still should support the Greek spelling...
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Level 65
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 44
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
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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
2:44

Scoring

You scored 6/24 = 25%

This beats or equals 15.2% of test takers

The average score is 15

Your high score is 6

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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 53
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 48
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 51
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 69
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 60
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
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Level 92
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 78
Oct 8, 2021
Have you considered a career in standup?
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Level 20
Sep 9, 2021
I got all of them because I once had an interest in alphabets
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Level 43
Oct 25, 2021
I'm surprised that sigma is only guessed by 63%
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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 44
Dec 10, 2021
just guess covid variants lmao
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2022
*watches as Delta and Omicron rise in percentages*
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2022
just naming the covid varients
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Level 40
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 27
Mar 9, 2022
I was quite surprised to score around 20 by just studying physics in school lmao
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Level 34
Apr 13, 2022
I got 20 but why didn't it accept "khi" ?
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Level 48
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 54
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 62
Jun 17, 2022
I am Greek and couldn't name them. We don't pronounce them that way
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Level 53
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 27
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 45
Jan 6, 2023
bro whyd i win this with alphabet lore ;-;
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Level 47
Feb 11, 2023
i missed 5, i need to connect with my heritage more 😭
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Level 40
Apr 14, 2023
Further maths and physics student lol
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Level 26
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 28
Apr 18, 2023
SIGMA
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Level 33
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
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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 23
Aug 3, 2023
im fluent in greek i just cant spell them in english
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Level 57
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 21
Jan 14, 2024
Bruh.. how could I have not known "Sigma"
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Level 30
Jan 28, 2024
I’ve seen some of these in my math classes
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Level 22
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 34
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 20
Feb 24, 2024
Great practice quiz!
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Level 20
Feb 24, 2024
Props to people who got the ones that appear in math.
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Level 26
Mar 12, 2024
surely it's not possible to get lambda, theta, rho, delta, all the math stuff, and then miss pi, right?

RIGHT???