diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 3b3e903b03aa66aac63f720309eac881779497ba..f70cfe75e9e867654bda4aba486348f93ee0d5e3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -4761,7 +4761,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute
 
        <row>
         <entry><type>pg_ddl_command</></entry>
-        <entry>Identifies a represention of DDL commands that is available to event triggers.</entry>
+        <entry>Identifies a representation of DDL commands that is available to event triggers.</entry>
        </row>
 
        <row>