diff --git a/doc/source/configuration.rst b/doc/source/configuration.rst
index 4ffba6b0..1a0b1c50 100644
--- a/doc/source/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/source/configuration.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Available Settings
    ``"ABORTED"`` 
    The user interupted the workload
 
-.. confval:: max_reties
+.. confval:: max_retries
 
    The maximum number of times failed jobs will be retried before giving up. If
    not set, this will default to ``3``.