#5486: typos.
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 9673dab..a50ffbf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
    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.