diff --git a/jax/_src/maps.py b/jax/_src/maps.py
index 63f238d93b92..24fd2a481b59 100644
--- a/jax/_src/maps.py
+++ b/jax/_src/maps.py
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ def xmap(fun: Callable,
   Note that the contraction in the program is performed over the positional axes,
   while named axes are just a convenient way to achieve batching. While this
   might seem like a silly example at first, it might turn out to be useful in
-  practice, since with conjuction with ``axis_resources`` this makes it possible
+  practice, since with conjunction with ``axis_resources`` this makes it possible
   to implement a distributed matrix-multiplication in just a few lines of code::
 
     devices = np.array(jax.devices())[:4].reshape((2, 2))