diff --git a/docs/topics/selectors.rst b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
index d192498f3..373d25080 100644
--- a/docs/topics/selectors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Set operations
 These can be handy for excluding parts of a document tree before
 extracting text elements for example.
 
-Example extracting midrodata (sample content taken from http://schema.org/Product)
+Example extracting microdata (sample content taken from http://schema.org/Product)
 with groups of itemscopes and corresponding itemprops::
 
     >>> doc = """