diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 187f873ba7a..fb4e717ba7e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ introduction that shows some basic usage of the module.
 
 A subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree library for processing XML has
 been added to the standard library as \module{xmlcore.etree}.  The
-vailable modules are
+available modules are
 \module{ElementTree}, \module{ElementPath}, and
 \module{ElementInclude} from ElementTree 1.2.6.   
 The \module{cElementTree} accelerator module is also included.