#5486: typos.
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index b1626f2..7d8e1b3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
The base class for all built-in exceptions. It is not meant to be directly
inherited by user-defined classes (for that use :exc:`Exception`). If
:func:`str` or :func:`unicode` is called on an instance of this class, the
- representation of the argument(s) to the instance are returned or the emptry
+ representation of the argument(s) to the instance are returned or the empty
string when there were no arguments. All arguments are stored in :attr:`args`
as a tuple.