diff --git a/pep-0622.rst b/pep-0622.rst
index af7ec81eb..67039f205 100644
--- a/pep-0622.rst
+++ b/pep-0622.rst
@@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ values in deciding what was a valid match.
 
 This would allow patterns such as ``InRange<0, 6>(value)``, which would match
 a number in the range 0..6 and assign the matched value to 'value'. Similarly,
-one could have a pattern which tests for the existince of a named group in
+one could have a pattern which tests for the existence of a named group in
 a regular expression match result (different meaning of the word 'match').
 
 Although there is some support for this idea, there was a lot of bikeshedding