Tatoo or tattoo?
Did you mean tattoo? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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tattoo
Correct spelling: tattoo. Misspelling: tatoo.
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Memory tip
Double T and double O: ta-TT-OO.
Why people write “tatoo”
Tattoo has two double letters, TT and OO, and neither is easy to hear. “Tatoo” drops one of the two Ts in the middle. “Tattoe” borrows the OE of words like toe and foe, but the stressed ending of ta-TOO is spelled OO, as in too and zoo.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make tattoo automatic.
Other misspellings of “tattoo”
People also write “tattoe” and “tatto”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“tattoe”
Correct spelling: tattoo. Misspelling: tattoe.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
“tatto”
Correct spelling: tattoo. Misspelling: tatto.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
What does “tattoo” mean?
tattoo noun
- a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
- a design on the skin made by tattooing
- the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining
tattoo verb
- stain (skin) with indelible color
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Tattoo” in a sentence
- He got a tattoo on his arm.
Is “tattoo” a playable word?
6 points in Scrabble · 6 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“tatoo” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from TATTOO.