diff --git a/development.ini b/development.ini
--- a/development.ini
+++ b/development.ini
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ api_access_controllers_whitelist =
 #    FilesController:archivefile
 
 ## default encoding used to convert from and to unicode
-## can be also a comma seperated list of encoding in case of mixed encodings
+## can be also a comma separated list of encoding in case of mixed encodings
 default_encoding = utf8
 
 ## issue tracker for Kallithea (leave blank to disable, absent for default)