diff --git a/docs/direct_url.rst b/docs/direct_url.rst
index caa59f781..846cf8bb9 100644
--- a/docs/direct_url.rst
+++ b/docs/direct_url.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Usage
     )
 
     # Load from JSON. The resulting DirectUrl object is validated against the
-    # specification, else a DirectUrlalidationError is raised
+    # specification, else a DirectUrlValidationError is raised
     direct_url = DirectUrl.from_dict(
         json.loads(Path("/tmp/direct_url.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
     )