diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index bf72c46..d3a5f87 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
    For the :class:`Document` node, an additional keyword argument *encoding* can
    be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.
 
-   Silimarly, explicitly stating the *standalone* argument causes the
+   Similarly, explicitly stating the *standalone* argument causes the
    standalone document declarations to be added to the prologue of the XML
    document.
    If the value is set to `True`, `standalone="yes"` is added,