diff --git a/spacy/kb/candidate.py b/spacy/kb/candidate.py
index 190792fbe..79e1666f1 100644
--- a/spacy/kb/candidate.py
+++ b/spacy/kb/candidate.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class Candidate(BaseCandidate):
         prior_prob: float,
     ):
         """
-        retrieve_string_from_hash (Callable[[int], str]): Callable retrieveing entity name from provided entity/vocab
+        retrieve_string_from_hash (Callable[[int], str]): Callable retrieving entity name from provided entity/vocab
             hash.
         entity_hash (str): Hashed entity name /ID.
         entity_freq (int): Entity frequency in KB corpus.