diff --git a/evm/spec/mpts.tex b/evm/spec/mpts.tex
index dbd0f27b..bb0547cd 100644
--- a/evm/spec/mpts.tex
+++ b/evm/spec/mpts.tex
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The storage trie payload in turn is a single word.
 The transaction trie nodes contain the length of the RLP encoded transaction, followed by the bytes of the RLP encoding of the transaction.
 
 \subsubsection{Receipt Trie}
-The payload of the recipts trie is a receipt. Each receipt is stored as
+The payload of the receipts trie is a receipt. Each receipt is stored as
 \begin{enumerate}
 	\item the length in words of the payload,
 	\item the status,