diff --git a/docs/api/app.md b/docs/api/app.md
index 7e47b446f6d3..8223643a375f 100644
--- a/docs/api/app.md
+++ b/docs/api/app.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ In most cases, you should just do everything in the `ready` event handler.
 
 ## Event: ready
 
-Emitted when Electron has finsished initialization.
+Emitted when Electron has finished initialization.
 
 ## Event: window-all-closed