diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 3f244b8a8d2..38b419dc2bd 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Release 2.2.1 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5546. mapred.cmd on Windows set HADOOP_OPTS incorrectly (Chuan Liu
     via cnauroth)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5518. Fixed typo "can't read paritions file". (Albert Chu
+    via devaraj)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraSort.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraSort.java
index 09ab4b7e530..6022f6c5026 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraSort.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraSort.java
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ public class TeraSort extends Configured implements Tool {
         splitPoints = readPartitions(fs, partFile, conf);
         trie = buildTrie(splitPoints, 0, splitPoints.length, new Text(), 2);
       } catch (IOException ie) {
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException("can't read paritions file", ie);
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("can't read partitions file", ie);
       }
     }