diff --git a/pep-8012.rst b/pep-8012.rst
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@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Votes of no confidence
 Those describe a situation where a core developer is forcefully
 removed from the core team or an experts team is forcefully disbanded.
 Hopefully those will never have to be exercised but they are explicitly
-mentioned to demonstrate how a disfunctional area of interest can be
+mentioned to demonstrate how a dysfunctional area of interest can be
 healed.
 
 If a core developer is removed by vote from the core team, they lose