diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
index 6f668231fd..d2b16d62da 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.1.txt
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Bugfixes
 * Fixed a migration crash when applying migrations with model managers on
   Python 3 that were generated on Python 2 (:ticket:`24701`).
 
-* Restored the ability to use interators as queryset filter arguments
+* Restored the ability to use iterators as queryset filter arguments
   (:ticket:`24719`).
 
 Optimizations