diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index ddcb9a992db..63879cf84ef 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ Miscellaneous
   result of a callable.
 
 * ``GenericIPAddressField.empty_strings_allowed`` is now ``False``. Database
-  backends that interpet empty strings as null (only Oracle among the backends
+  backends that interpret empty strings as null (only Oracle among the backends
   that Django includes) will no longer convert null values back to an empty
   string. This is consistent with other backends.