diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index 2d040d92f98..c684454181a 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ Management commands and order of :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`
 When several applications provide management commands with the same name,
 Django loads the command from the application that comes first in
 :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`. Previous versions loaded the command from the
-applicatino that came last.
+application that came last.
 
 This brings discovery of management commands in line with other parts of
 Django that rely on the order of :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`, such as static