diff --git a/mariadb/__init__.py b/mariadb/__init__.py
index 3407c82..56a3a09 100644
--- a/mariadb/__init__.py
+++ b/mariadb/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '''
 MariaDB Connector/Python enables python programs to access MariaDB and MySQL 
-atabases, using an API which is compliant with the Python DB API 2.0 (PEP-249).
+databases, using an API which is compliant with the Python DB API 2.0 (PEP-249).
 It is written in C and uses MariaDB Connector/C client library for client
 server communication.