diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index ffe41cf3e..7aa8555d5 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ scrapy.Spider
    .. attribute:: crawler
 
       This attribute is set by the :meth:`from_crawler` class method after
-      initializating the class, and links to the
+      initializing the class, and links to the
       :class:`~scrapy.crawler.Crawler` object to which this spider instance is
       bound.