diff --git a/django/test/testcases.py b/django/test/testcases.py
index 5b5c6f67ec..f524f1c34d 100644
--- a/django/test/testcases.py
+++ b/django/test/testcases.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def assertContains(self, response, text, count=None, status_code=200):
         """
-        Asserts that a response indicates that a page was retreived
+        Asserts that a response indicates that a page was retrieved
         successfully, (i.e., the HTTP status code was as expected), and that
         ``text`` occurs ``count`` times in the content of the response.
         If ``count`` is None, the count doesn't matter - the assertion is true