diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cb730831083..536f8191552 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
                unflushable regions.
    HBASE-3550  FilterList reports false positives (Bill Graham via Andrew
                Purtell)
+   HBASE-3548  Fix type in documentation of pseudo distributed mode
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-3290  Max Compaction Size (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)  
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/pseudo-distributed.xml b/src/site/xdoc/pseudo-distributed.xml
index 1b3e5e65141..8677ddc21b0 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/pseudo-distributed.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/pseudo-distributed.xml
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ Running HBase in pseudo-distributed mode
  In particular it describes scripts that allow you start extra masters and regionservers when running in pseudo-distributed mode.
  </p>
 
- <ol><li>Copy the psuedo-distributed suggested configuration file (feel free to take a peek and understand what it's doing)
-             <source>% cp conf/hbase-site.xml{.psuedo-distributed.template,}</source>
+ <ol><li>Copy the pseudo-distributed suggested configuration file (feel free to take a peek and understand what it's doing)
+             <source>% cp conf/hbase-site.xml{.pseudo-distributed.template,}</source>
     </li>
     <li>(Optional) Start up <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/quickstart.html#PseudoDistributed">Pseudo-distributed HDFS</a>.
              <ol><li>If you do, go to conf/hbase-site.xml.  Uncomment the 'hbase.rootdir' property.