diff --git a/Doc/library/json.rst b/Doc/library/json.rst
index 400e2d2..648ba3a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/json.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/json.rst
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
       Keys in key/value pairs of JSON are always of the type :class:`str`. When
       a dictionary is converted into JSON, all the keys of the dictionary are
-      coerced to strings. As a result of this, if a dictionary is convered
+      coerced to strings. As a result of this, if a dictionary is converted
       into JSON and then back into a dictionary, the dictionary may not equal
       the original one. That is, ``loads(dumps(x)) != x`` if x has non-string
       keys.