fix spelling that was a bit confused (closes #24963)
diff --git a/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst b/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
index 99b5bea..301048e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ipaddress.rst
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@
single-address network, with the network address being *address* and
the mask being ``/128``.
- 3. An integer packed into a :class:`bytes` object of length 16, bit-endian.
+ 3. An integer packed into a :class:`bytes` object of length 16, big-endian.
The interpretation is similar to an integer *address*.
An :exc:`AddressValueError` is raised if *address* is not a valid IPv6