diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/handler.py b/Lib/xml/sax/handler.py
index e8d417e5194232..3183c3fe96d74f 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/handler.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/handler.py
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ def startDTD(self, name, public_id, system_id):
 
         name is the name of the document element type, public_id the
         public identifier of the DTD (or None if none were supplied)
-        and system_id the system identfier of the external subset (or
+        and system_id the system identifier of the external subset (or
         None if none were supplied)."""
 
     def endDTD(self):