diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameWriter.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameWriter.scala
index f876501b15e2c..4b5bb8d8ea2e7 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameWriter.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameWriter.scala
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ final class DataFrameWriter private[sql](df: DataFrame) {
    * Partitions the output by the given columns on the file system. If specified, the output is
    * laid out on the file system similar to Hive's partitioning scheme.
    *
-   * This was initally applicable for Parquet but in 1.5+ covers JSON as well.
+   * This was initially applicable for Parquet but in 1.5+ covers JSON as well.
    *
    * @since 1.4.0
    */