{"id":2838,"date":"2025-02-18T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/how-to-pronounce-ahrefs-the-official-way\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:03:09","slug":"how-to-pronounce-ahrefs-the-official-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/how-to-pronounce-ahrefs-the-official-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pronounce Ahrefs (The Official Way)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"author-desktop\">\n<div class=\"post-navigation2\">\n<div id=\"fright\" class=\"share-post-top-bottom subscr-fright\">\n<p>Get the week&#8217;s best marketing content<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p>Life is full of huge, difficult questions. Are we alone in the universe? Why do movie characters never say \u201cgoodbye\u201d before hanging up? And how do you pronounce Ahrefs?<\/p>\n<p>I can answer one of those questions for you. (Sorry, the universe thing is above my pay\u00a0grade.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-nav-link clearfix\" id=\"section1\"><a class=\"subhead-anchor\" data-tip=\"tooltip__copielink\" rel=\"#section1\"><svg width=\"19\" height=\"19\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" style=\"\"><g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M0 0h14v14H0z\"\/><path d=\"M7.45 9.887l-1.62 1.621c-.92.92-2.418.92-3.338 0a2.364 2.364 0 0 1 0-3.339l1.62-1.62-1.273-1.272-1.62 1.62a4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.885 5.884l1.62-1.62L7.45 9.886zM5.527 5.135L7.17 3.492c.92-.92 2.418-.92 3.339 0 .92.92.92 2.418 0 3.339L8.866 8.473l1.272 1.273 1.644-1.643A4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.897 2.22L4.254 3.863l1.272 1.272zm-.66 3.998a.749.749 0 0 1 0-1.06l2.208-2.206a.749.749 0 1 1 1.06 1.06L5.928 9.133a.75.75 0 0 1-1.061 0z\" style=\"\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-text\" data-anchor=\"Ahrefs is pronounced H-refs\" data-section=\"official-pronounciation\">\n<h2><a id=\"post-185681-_g13g87sqj5eg\"\/>Ahrefs is pronounced <em>H-refs<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I work at Ahrefs, and we pronounce Ahrefs like \u201cH-refs\u201d. It\u2019s how we say it in company meetings, interviews, sales calls, YouTube videos, and everyday life. Yep\u2014the \u201cA\u201d is silent.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what that looks like using the International Phonetic Alphabet:<\/p>\n<h3><a id=\"post-185681-_hqqjph6lvpg3\"\/>\/e\u026a\u02a7-r\u025bfs\/<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\/e\u026at\u0283\/<\/strong> \u2192 \u201cH\u201d as in the letter name<\/p>\n<p><strong>\/r\u025bfs\/<\/strong> \u2192 \u201crefs\u201d as in \u201creferences\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to <em>hear<\/em> how it sounds, here\u2019s Rob from our enterprise team, talking us through it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ti6sRiHQiYE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-nav-link clearfix\" id=\"section1\"><a class=\"subhead-anchor\" data-tip=\"tooltip__copielink\" rel=\"#section1\"><svg width=\"19\" height=\"19\" viewbox=\"0 0 14 14\" style=\"\"><g fill=\"none\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M0 0h14v14H0z\"\/><path d=\"M7.45 9.887l-1.62 1.621c-.92.92-2.418.92-3.338 0a2.364 2.364 0 0 1 0-3.339l1.62-1.62-1.273-1.272-1.62 1.62a4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.885 5.884l1.62-1.62L7.45 9.886zM5.527 5.135L7.17 3.492c.92-.92 2.418-.92 3.339 0 .92.92.92 2.418 0 3.339L8.866 8.473l1.272 1.273 1.644-1.643A4.161 4.161 0 1 0 5.897 2.22L4.254 3.863l1.272 1.272zm-.66 3.998a.749.749 0 0 1 0-1.06l2.208-2.206a.749.749 0 1 1 1.06 1.06L5.928 9.133a.75.75 0 0 1-1.061 0z\" style=\"\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-text\" data-anchor=\"Ahrefs around the world\" data-section=\"ahrefs-around-the-world\">\n<h2><a id=\"post-185681-_cxiapccbp9nq\"\/>Ahrefs by any other name smells just as\u00a0sweet<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: Ahrefs is used all over the world, and that means Ahrefs is <em>pronounced <\/em>differently all over the world, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cH-refs\u201d might be the official pronunciation, but we\u2019ve heard hundreds of different takes on our company name, from the British \u201cay-aych-refs\u201d to the Indian \u201caah-refs\u201d to the Klingon \u201cach-ref\u201d (seriously). We think they\u2019re pretty awesome too.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this LinkedIn post where our CMO, Tim, collects Ahrefs pronunciations from around the\u00a0world:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:ugcPost:7293192562679418881\" width=\"504\" height=\"1170\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So now you know the official way to say \u201cAhrefs\u201d (and you also have our blessing to say it a different way,\u00a0too).<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\nif(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments);if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','1511271639109289');fbq('track','PageView');<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/how-to-pronounce-ahrefs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the week&#8217;s best marketing content Life is full of huge, difficult questions. Are we alone in the universe? Why do movie characters never say \u201cgoodbye\u201d before hanging up? And how do you pronounce Ahrefs? I can answer one of those questions for you. (Sorry, the universe thing is above my pay\u00a0grade.) Ahrefs is pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}