diff --git a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timedeltas.pyx b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timedeltas.pyx
index 518a79c7c281a..047b5e861da2c 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timedeltas.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timedeltas.pyx
@@ -1592,7 +1592,7 @@ cdef class _Timedelta(timedelta):
 
     def as_unit(self, str unit, bint round_ok=True):
         """
-        Convert the underlying int64 representaton to the given unit.
+        Convert the underlying int64 representation to the given unit.
 
         Parameters
         ----------