diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
index a8ab39e25d7..3290641232f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ as their value.  The semantics of each element are:
 version of the object.  The next element of the tuple will provide
 arguments for this callable, and later elements provide additional
 state information that will subsequently be used to fully reconstruct
-the pickled date.
+the pickled data.
 
 In the unpickling environment this object must be either a class, a
 callable registered as a ``safe constructor'' (see below), or it must