diff --git a/docs/basics.rst b/docs/basics.rst
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--- a/docs/basics.rst
+++ b/docs/basics.rst
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ Earlier we defined a schema:
 Let's now use this schema to try to deserialize some concrete data
 structures.
 
-Each of thse concrete data structures is called a :term:`cstruct`.
+Each of these concrete data structures is called a :term:`cstruct`.
 "cstruct" is an abbreviation of "colander structure": you can think of
 a cstruct as a serialized representation of some application data.  A
 "cstruct" is usually generated by the