diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
index 2dfa7e4e6aff55..6443b78c8fa4cb 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ These improvements are inspired by previous work in the PyPy interpreter.
 :issue:`40176`.)
 
 :exc:`SyntaxError` exceptions raised by the interpreter will now highlight the
-full error range of the expression that consistutes the syntax error itself,
+full error range of the expression that constitutes the syntax error itself,
 instead of just where the problem is detected. In this way, instead of displaying
 (before Python 3.10):