How to pronounce .htaccess

.htaccess is most commonly pronounced "aitch tee access" (/ˌeɪtʃ tiː ˈæksɛs/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Read as the hidden filename it is: 'H-T-access' /eɪtʃ tiː æksɛs/. The leading dot is never spoken, and the T is always there — 'aitch-access' drops a letter.

Pronouncing project and product names correctly avoids the small but persistent friction of being gently corrected during standups, conference Q&As, and team calls. Hearing the word a few times locks in the right reading better than reading IPA ever will. Pronounce is a community-maintained dictionary — every entry tagged with a confidence level and (where possible) a citable source.