#9911: doc copyedits.
diff --git a/Doc/library/bisect.rst b/Doc/library/bisect.rst
index 8bf0949..eb23159 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bisect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bisect.rst
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
Unlike the :func:`sorted` function, it does not make sense for the :func:`bisect`
functions to have *key* or *reversed* arguments because that would lead to an
-inefficent design (successive calls to bisect functions would not "remember"
+inefficient design (successive calls to bisect functions would not "remember"
all of the previous key lookups).
Instead, it is better to search a list of precomputed keys to find the index