diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 0aaf7d5d6..3c6aaf411 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ TextResponse objects
             unicode(response.body)
 
         Since, in the latter case, you would be using you system default encoding
-        (typically `ascii`) to convert the body to uniode, instead of the response
+        (typically `ascii`) to convert the body to unicode, instead of the response
         encoding.
 
 HtmlResponse objects