diff --git a/Lib/gettext.py b/Lib/gettext.py
index f9392d8..d5321b8 100644
--- a/Lib/gettext.py
+++ b/Lib/gettext.py
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
             # Note: we unconditionally convert both msgids and msgstrs to
             # Unicode using the character encoding specified in the charset
             # parameter of the Content-Type header.  The gettext documentation
-            # strongly encourages msgids to be us-ascii, but some appliations
+            # strongly encourages msgids to be us-ascii, but some applications
             # require alternative encodings (e.g. Zope's ZCML and ZPT).  For
             # traditional gettext applications, the msgid conversion will
             # cause no problems since us-ascii should always be a subset of