diff --git a/docs/dev/contributing.rst b/docs/dev/contributing.rst
index 53b2a8e5..075d042a 100644
--- a/docs/dev/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/contributing.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ of other contributors, and should be avoided as much as possible.
 Feature Requests
 ----------------
 
-Requests is in a perpeptual feature freeze. The maintainers believe that
+Requests is in a perpetual feature freeze. The maintainers believe that
 requests contains every major feature currently required by the vast majority
 of users.