diff --git a/magick/statistic.c b/magick/statistic.c
index 6408974..bdf2905 100644
--- a/magick/statistic.c
+++ b/magick/statistic.c
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@
% standard deviation, kurtosis and skewness. You can access the red channel
% mean, for example, like this:
%
-% channel_statistics=GetImageChannelStatistics(image,excepton);
+% channel_statistics=GetImageChannelStatistics(image,exception);
% red_mean=channel_statistics[RedChannel].mean;
%
% Use MagickRelinquishMemory() to free the statistics buffer.