diff --git a/strings/word_occurrence.py b/strings/word_occurrence.py
index 5a18ebf771e4..79769fb8944c 100644
--- a/strings/word_occurrence.py
+++ b/strings/word_occurrence.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ def word_occurrence(sentence: str) -> dict:
     """
     >>> from collections import Counter
     >>> SENTENCE = "a b A b c b d b d e f e g e h e i e j e 0"
-    >>> occurence_dict = word_occurrence(SENTENCE)
-    >>> all(occurence_dict[word] == count for word, count
+    >>> occurrence_dict = word_occurrence(SENTENCE)
+    >>> all(occurrence_dict[word] == count for word, count
     ...     in Counter(SENTENCE.split()).items())
     True
     >>> dict(word_occurrence("Two  spaces"))