diff --git a/docs/en/reference/basic-mapping.rst b/docs/en/reference/basic-mapping.rst
index 8c525eab5..e7b18b834 100644
--- a/docs/en/reference/basic-mapping.rst
+++ b/docs/en/reference/basic-mapping.rst
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Example:
 In that example we configured the property ``id`` to map to the column ``id``
 using the mapping type ``integer``. The field ``name`` is mapped to the column
 ``name`` with the default mapping type ``string``. Column names are assumed to
-be the same as the field names unless you pecify a different name for the
+be the same as the field names unless you specify a different name for the
 column using the ``name`` attribute of the Column annotation:
 
 .. configuration-block::