diff --git a/docs/tutorial/index.rst b/docs/tutorial/index.rst
index 1eb141a7..ee0edcce 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/index.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorial/index.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ A more production ready open can look like this ::
 
     db = rocksdb.DB("test.db", opts)
 
-It assings a cache of 2.5G, uses a bloom filter for faster lookups and keeps
+It assigns a cache of 2.5G, uses a bloom filter for faster lookups and keeps
 more data (64 MB) in memory before writting a .sst file.
 
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