





























See Also
See Again
© Getty Images
0 / 30 Fotos
Jessie J
- The successful singer recently showed off her stunning body in a new Instagram post, which also featured a new tattoo. "Don't loose who you are in the blur of the stars," reads the ink. "Yes I spelt the tattoo wrong," wrote Jessie J. "Yes I was 18."
© Getty Images
1 / 30 Fotos
Rihanna - Rihanna has a beautiful italicized tattoo on the left side of her neck that reads "Rebelle Fleur." The tat is supposed to mean "rebellious flower" in French—but it doesn't.
© NL Beeld
2 / 30 Fotos
Grammatically incorrect
- "Rebelle Fleur" isn't something a French person would say. The tat should instead read "Fleur Rebelle," because the adjective comes after the noun in French. Rihanna has kept the tattoo despite the well-known error.
© Reuters
3 / 30 Fotos
Second misspelling - But Rihanna also has a tattoo misspelled in Sanskrit on her hip. Her hip tattoo is supposed to read "forgiveness, honesty, suppression and control," which is part of a Hindu prayer. But it was mistranslated to "long suffering, truthfulness, self-restraint, inward calm, fear and fearlessness." The prayer is also incomplete.
© Getty Images
4 / 30 Fotos
Britney Spears - Britney Spears long dominated the misspelled tattoo game. One is on her hip, which you can just barely see here in this photo. The Chinese character is supposed to mean "mysterious," but actually means "strange."
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Second act - On the back her neck, the singer got a Kabbalah tattoo that was supposed to mean "God," but came out as something no one's quite sure what to make of.
© NL Beeld
6 / 30 Fotos
Removed - Britney Spears is believed to have removed one, if not both, of her misspelled tattoos.
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Christina Aguilera - In a rare case of getting a misspelled tattoo but actually being thankful for it, Christina Aguilera managed to accidentally save herself from embarrassment with this tat on her left arm.
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Ex-husband's initials - Aguilera intended to get her then-husband's initials (J.B.) tattooed on her arm in Hebrew. Instead, she got the number 12. The two are now divorced and Aguilera got the tattoo removed.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Jennifer Lawrence - A-lister Jennifer Lawrence got a B-rated tattoo on her right hand when she was with Liam Hemsworth's family.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Water - While Lawrence intended to get "H20" tattooed on her hand, which you can just make out in this photo, the "2" is situated higher than the "H" and "O," when it should be below.
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
David Beckham - The former soccer superstar has a great many tattoos, including one in Sanskrit of his wife's name on his left arm. But the tattoo artist misspelled Posh's first name.
© Shutterstock
12 / 30 Fotos
"Vihctoria"
- David Beckham's tattoo reads "Vihctoria" in Sanskrit, instead of "Victoria." He hasn't removed the tattoo to date.
© Reuters
13 / 30 Fotos
Hayden Panettiere - 'Nashville' and 'Heroes' star Hayden Panettiere told the world that her tattoo stating "Vivere senza rimipianti" means "live without regrets" in Italian. Except there's a problem.
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
Any regrets? - The last word should read "rimpianti." At least Panettiere has acknowledged the irony of misspelling "regrets" in permanent ink on her body.
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Removed
- Joking with Glamour magazine that she now had to live with the advice of "live without ragrets," she later had the tattoo removed.
© Getty Images
16 / 30 Fotos
Kevin Durant - Kevin Durant has a great deal of tattoos on his torso, and his back has a massively long quote from the Bible from James 1:2-4. But there's a typo in the long passage.
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
"Mautre" - "Let it do its work so you become mautre and well-developed, not deficient in any way," reads Durant's tattoo, which misspelled "mature."
© Getty Images
18 / 30 Fotos
Ashley Greene - 'Twilight' actress Ashley Greene got this tattoo on her left foot, reading "Lifes a dance." What's worse, messing up a tattoo in a foreign langugage or your native language?
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Apostrophe - While the mistake isn't a huge one, not putting an apostrophe in "lifes" lessens the tattoo's quality all the same.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Coolio - Rapper and actor Coolio decided to get a tattoo in honor of juggalos, the fan club of the Insane Clown Posse who wear clown makeup and were briefly suspected of being a terrorist organization by the FBI. But wait, it gets better.
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
Jugalo Cool - Coolio's tattoo reads "Jugalo Cool," using only one 'g.' When asked about the typo, Coolio insisted it was an intentional misspelling and wouldn't change it.
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Nicole Richie - Nicole Richie didn't misspell her tattoo, she just made a rather strange choice. The reality star-turned-actress is a Virgo, the astrological sign represented by The Virgin. So instead of getting Virgo tattooed on her arm, she decided "Virgin" was better.
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
"Virgin" - Again, she intended to have "Virgin" tattooed on her wrist. Richie herself has conceded that it's a strange tattoo.
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Emma Watson - Emma Watson showed up to a 2018 Oscars after party with a tattoo that read "Times up," this in reference to the Me Too movement.
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Fake - Thankfully for Watson, the tattoo that was missing an apostrophe was just temporary ink.
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
Doubling down - So it's clear by now that Ariana Grande isn't alone when it comes to famous people misspelling their tattoos. But what she's done since has truly set her apart from the rest.
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Claims to know Japanese - After she got a tattoo that reads "BBQ Grill" instead of "7 Rings," Grande then claimed she was studying Japanese and only needed to add one character for the tattoo to make sense.
© Shutterstock
28 / 30 Fotos
Grilled
- But after apparently fixing the tattoo, it instead read "tiny Japanese charcoal grill," and certainly still not "7 Rings." See also: The craziest celebrity face tattoos.
© Reuters
29 / 30 Fotos
© Getty Images
0 / 30 Fotos
Jessie J
- The successful singer recently showed off her stunning body in a new Instagram post, which also featured a new tattoo. "Don't loose who you are in the blur of the stars," reads the ink. "Yes I spelt the tattoo wrong," wrote Jessie J. "Yes I was 18."
© Getty Images
1 / 30 Fotos
Rihanna - Rihanna has a beautiful italicized tattoo on the left side of her neck that reads "Rebelle Fleur." The tat is supposed to mean "rebellious flower" in French—but it doesn't.
© NL Beeld
2 / 30 Fotos
Grammatically incorrect
- "Rebelle Fleur" isn't something a French person would say. The tat should instead read "Fleur Rebelle," because the adjective comes after the noun in French. Rihanna has kept the tattoo despite the well-known error.
© Reuters
3 / 30 Fotos
Second misspelling - But Rihanna also has a tattoo misspelled in Sanskrit on her hip. Her hip tattoo is supposed to read "forgiveness, honesty, suppression and control," which is part of a Hindu prayer. But it was mistranslated to "long suffering, truthfulness, self-restraint, inward calm, fear and fearlessness." The prayer is also incomplete.
© Getty Images
4 / 30 Fotos
Britney Spears - Britney Spears long dominated the misspelled tattoo game. One is on her hip, which you can just barely see here in this photo. The Chinese character is supposed to mean "mysterious," but actually means "strange."
© Getty Images
5 / 30 Fotos
Second act - On the back her neck, the singer got a Kabbalah tattoo that was supposed to mean "God," but came out as something no one's quite sure what to make of.
© NL Beeld
6 / 30 Fotos
Removed - Britney Spears is believed to have removed one, if not both, of her misspelled tattoos.
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Christina Aguilera - In a rare case of getting a misspelled tattoo but actually being thankful for it, Christina Aguilera managed to accidentally save herself from embarrassment with this tat on her left arm.
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Ex-husband's initials - Aguilera intended to get her then-husband's initials (J.B.) tattooed on her arm in Hebrew. Instead, she got the number 12. The two are now divorced and Aguilera got the tattoo removed.
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Jennifer Lawrence - A-lister Jennifer Lawrence got a B-rated tattoo on her right hand when she was with Liam Hemsworth's family.
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Water - While Lawrence intended to get "H20" tattooed on her hand, which you can just make out in this photo, the "2" is situated higher than the "H" and "O," when it should be below.
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
David Beckham - The former soccer superstar has a great many tattoos, including one in Sanskrit of his wife's name on his left arm. But the tattoo artist misspelled Posh's first name.
© Shutterstock
12 / 30 Fotos
"Vihctoria"
- David Beckham's tattoo reads "Vihctoria" in Sanskrit, instead of "Victoria." He hasn't removed the tattoo to date.
© Reuters
13 / 30 Fotos
Hayden Panettiere - 'Nashville' and 'Heroes' star Hayden Panettiere told the world that her tattoo stating "Vivere senza rimipianti" means "live without regrets" in Italian. Except there's a problem.
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
Any regrets? - The last word should read "rimpianti." At least Panettiere has acknowledged the irony of misspelling "regrets" in permanent ink on her body.
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Removed
- Joking with Glamour magazine that she now had to live with the advice of "live without ragrets," she later had the tattoo removed.
© Getty Images
16 / 30 Fotos
Kevin Durant - Kevin Durant has a great deal of tattoos on his torso, and his back has a massively long quote from the Bible from James 1:2-4. But there's a typo in the long passage.
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
"Mautre" - "Let it do its work so you become mautre and well-developed, not deficient in any way," reads Durant's tattoo, which misspelled "mature."
© Getty Images
18 / 30 Fotos
Ashley Greene - 'Twilight' actress Ashley Greene got this tattoo on her left foot, reading "Lifes a dance." What's worse, messing up a tattoo in a foreign langugage or your native language?
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Apostrophe - While the mistake isn't a huge one, not putting an apostrophe in "lifes" lessens the tattoo's quality all the same.
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Coolio - Rapper and actor Coolio decided to get a tattoo in honor of juggalos, the fan club of the Insane Clown Posse who wear clown makeup and were briefly suspected of being a terrorist organization by the FBI. But wait, it gets better.
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
Jugalo Cool - Coolio's tattoo reads "Jugalo Cool," using only one 'g.' When asked about the typo, Coolio insisted it was an intentional misspelling and wouldn't change it.
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Nicole Richie - Nicole Richie didn't misspell her tattoo, she just made a rather strange choice. The reality star-turned-actress is a Virgo, the astrological sign represented by The Virgin. So instead of getting Virgo tattooed on her arm, she decided "Virgin" was better.
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
"Virgin" - Again, she intended to have "Virgin" tattooed on her wrist. Richie herself has conceded that it's a strange tattoo.
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Emma Watson - Emma Watson showed up to a 2018 Oscars after party with a tattoo that read "Times up," this in reference to the Me Too movement.
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Fake - Thankfully for Watson, the tattoo that was missing an apostrophe was just temporary ink.
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
Doubling down - So it's clear by now that Ariana Grande isn't alone when it comes to famous people misspelling their tattoos. But what she's done since has truly set her apart from the rest.
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Claims to know Japanese - After she got a tattoo that reads "BBQ Grill" instead of "7 Rings," Grande then claimed she was studying Japanese and only needed to add one character for the tattoo to make sense.
© Shutterstock
28 / 30 Fotos
Grilled
- But after apparently fixing the tattoo, it instead read "tiny Japanese charcoal grill," and certainly still not "7 Rings." See also: The craziest celebrity face tattoos.
© Reuters
29 / 30 Fotos
Jessie J and other celebs with misspelled tattoos
The singer is just the latest star with a tat mishap
© Getty Images
Tattoos are, more or less, for life, so there's not much room for error. Unfortunately, bad tattoos happen every day, and not even celebs are exempt from incorrect ink. Take Jessie J, who recently showed off a misspelled tattoo to her fans.
Click on to see which other celebs got misspelled ink!
RECOMMENDED FOR YOU











MOST READ
- Last Hour
- Last Day
- Last Week