diff --git a/pep-0004.txt b/pep-0004.txt
index 82cfd619d..bc4946487 100644
--- a/pep-0004.txt
+++ b/pep-0004.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Obsolete modules
     All these modules have been declared as obsolete in Python 2.0,
     some even earlier.
 
-    The following obsolte modules were removed in Python 2.5:
+    The following obsolete modules were removed in Python 2.5:
 
         addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt,
         grep, lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, Para, poly,