diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index ecd69fd669f..7fed2c23df7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ Opening network connections
       UDP. Explicitly passing ``reuse_address=True`` will raise an exception.
 
       When multiple processes with differing UIDs assign sockets to an
-      indentical UDP socket address with ``SO_REUSEADDR``, incoming packets can
+      identical UDP socket address with ``SO_REUSEADDR``, incoming packets can
       become randomly distributed among the sockets.
 
       For supported platforms, *reuse_port* can be used as a replacement for