#9944: fix typo.
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 149c71e..c99ba06 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@
            # feed the entire iterator into a zero-length deque
            collections.deque(iterator, maxlen=0)
        else:
-           # advance to the emtpy slice starting at position n
+           # advance to the empty slice starting at position n
            next(islice(iterator, n, n), None)
 
    def nth(iterable, n, default=None):