English pronunciation of Greek letters

This table gives the common English pronunciation of Greek letters using the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...

(see Wikipedia:IPA for English.) It is the pronunciation of the ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

names of the Greek letters using the English teaching pronunciation

Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching

Ancient Greek has been pronounced in various ways by those studying Ancient Greek literature in various times and places. This article covers those pronunciations; the modern scholarly reconstruction of its ancient pronunciation is covered in Ancient Greek phonology.-Greek world:Among speakers of...

. Sometimes, especially in the sciences, the vowels will be pronounced closer to the Greek, for example /ˈpsiː/ instead of /ˈsaɪ/ for psi.

Greek	English name	English pronunciation
Α α	Alpha Alpha (letter) Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph...	/ˈælfə/
Β β	Beta Beta (letter) Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive . In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative ....	/ˈbiːtə/, US /ˈbeɪtə/
Γ γ	Gamma	/ˈɡæmə/
Δ δ	Delta Delta (letter) Delta is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Dalet...	/ˈdɛltə/
Ε ε	Epsilon	/ˈɛpsɨlɒn/, UK also /ɛpˈsaɪlən/
Ζ ζ	Zeta Zeta (letter) Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin...	/ˈziːtə/, US /ˈzeɪtə/
Η η	Eta Eta (letter) Eta ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally denoting a consonant /h/, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel , raised to in medieval Greek, a process known as itacism.In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 8...	/ˈiːtə/, US /ˈeɪtə/
Θ θ	Theta	/ˈθiːtə/, US /ˈθeɪtə/
Ι ι	Iota	/aɪˈoʊtə/
Κ κ	Kappa	/ˈkæpə/
Λ λ	Lambda	/ˈlæmdə/
Μ μ	Mu Mu (letter) Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Colombian singer, composer and actor.-Biography:...	/ˈmjuː/, US less commonly /ˈmuː/
Ν ν	Nu Nu (letter) Nu , is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50...	/ˈnjuː/, US /ˈnuː/
Ξ ξ	Xi	/ˈzaɪ/, /ˈksaɪ/
Ο ο	Omicron	/ˈɒmɨkrɒn/, traditional UK /oʊˈmaɪkrɒn/
Π π	Pi Pi (letter) Pi is the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 80. Letters that arose from pi include Cyrillic Pe , Coptic pi , and Gothic pairthra .The upper-case letter Π is used as a symbol for:...	/ˈpaɪ/
Ρ ρ	Rho Rho (letter) Rho is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 100. It is derived from Semitic resh "head"...	/ˈroʊ/
Σ σ ς (final)	Sigma	/ˈsɪɡmə/
Τ τ	Tau	/ˈtaʊ/, also /ˈtɔː/
Υ υ	Upsilon	/juːpˈsaɪlən/, /ˈʊpsɨlɒn/, UK also /ʌpˈsaɪlən/, US /ˈʌpsɨlɒn/
Φ φ	Phi Phi (letter) Phi , pronounced or sometimes in English, and in modern Greek, is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greek, it represents , a voiceless labiodental fricative. In Ancient Greek it represented , an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive...	/ˈfaɪ/
Χ χ	Chi Chi (letter) Chi is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced as in English.-Greek:-Ancient Greek:Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop .-Koine Greek:...	/ˈkaɪ/
Ψ ψ	Psi Psi (letter) Psi is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination /ps/ . The letter was adopted into the Old Italic alphabet, and its shape is continued into the Algiz rune of the Elder Futhark...	/ˈsaɪ/, /ˈpsaɪ/
Ω ω	Omega Omega Omega is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system, it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" , as opposed to omicron, which means "little O"...	US /oʊˈmeɪɡə/, traditional UK /ˈoʊmɨɡə/

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