typo
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 5d045e0..82d63b0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
continue without further notice), ``'xmlcharrefreplace'`` (replace with the
appropriate XML character reference (for encoding only)),
``'backslashreplace'`` (replace with backslashed escape sequences (for
- encoding only)), ``'surrogateescape'`` (replae with surrogate U+DCxx, see
+ encoding only)), ``'surrogateescape'`` (replace with surrogate U+DCxx, see
:pep:`383`) as well as any other error handling name defined via
:func:`register_error`.