diff --git a/docs/rewrite.rst b/docs/rewrite.rst
index 177f9645..6de11465 100644
--- a/docs/rewrite.rst
+++ b/docs/rewrite.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ previous query reformulation can be obtained by inclusion of a reset transformer
 Tokenising the Query
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-Sometimes your query can include sybmols that arent compatible with how your retriever parses the query.
+Sometimes your query can include symbols that aren't compatible with how your retriever parses the query.
 In this case, a custom tokeniser can be applied as part of the retrieval pipeline. 
 
 .. autofunction:: pyterrier.rewrite.tokenise()