diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/clientdat.tex b/docs/latex/wx/clientdat.tex
index c038eff313..f4aa0673e5 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/clientdat.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/clientdat.tex
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Note that you {\it must not} assign both void data and data
 derived from the wxClientData class to a container.
 
 NOTE: This functionality is currently duplicated in wxEvtHandler in
-order to avoid having more than one vtable in that class heirachy.
+order to avoid having more than one vtable in that class hierarchy.
 
 \wxheading{See also}