diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 8c0b92b7ba..22c6c9ee99 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ escaping HTML.
 .. function:: urlencode(query, doseq=0)
 
     A version of Python's urllib.urlencode() function that can operate on
-    unicode strings. The parameters are first case to UTF-8 encoded strings
+    unicode strings. The parameters are first cast to UTF-8 encoded strings
     and then encoded as per normal.
 
 .. function:: cookie_date(epoch_seconds=None)