diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index 2eb6a77434ea6..59308f3addcee 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ Spark's classpath for each application. In a Spark cluster running on YARN, thes
 files are set cluster-wide, and cannot safely be changed by the application.
 
 The better choice is to use spark hadoop properties in the form of `spark.hadoop.*`. 
-They can be considered as same as normal spark properties which can be set in `$SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defalut.conf`
+They can be considered as same as normal spark properties which can be set in `$SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-default.conf`
 
 In some cases, you may want to avoid hard-coding certain configurations in a `SparkConf`. For
 instance, Spark allows you to simply create an empty conf and set spark/spark hadoop properties.