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How do you pronounce OAuth?

oh-AWTH/oʊˈɔːθ/

Commonly said as: spelling out "oh-ay-you-tee-aitch"

Correct readingwith the dictionary applied

oh awth

Raw machine readingno correction at all

OAuth

What it is

OAuth is the open standard behind third-party sign-in and delegated authorization, including "Sign in with Google".

Why it gets said wrong

It reads as oh-auth: the letter O plus "auth", the front of authorization. It is not an initialism, so it is never spelled out.

Hear it in a sentence

Example sentence

Sign-in goes through the OAuth flow.

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