diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/4.3.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/4.3.0.rst
index c0a9d3c75..1e04dbd62 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/4.3.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/4.3.0.rst
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Get One Channel From Image
 
 New method :py:meth:`PIL.Image.Image.getchannel` added.
 It returns single channel by index or name. For example,
-``image.getchannel("A")`` will return alpha channel as seperate image.
+``image.getchannel("A")`` will return alpha channel as separate image.