diff --git a/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/mnist/input_data.py b/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/mnist/input_data.py
index c203c7b5341fabc907e0f4b40d82c80f9b860c37..3d32bd0c972e04bcd4d950ae3813e095304d84bf 100644
--- a/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/mnist/input_data.py
+++ b/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/mnist/input_data.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class _DataSet(object):
     Args:
       images: The images
       labels: The labels
-      fake_data: Ignore inages and labels, use fake data.
+      fake_data: Ignore images and labels, use fake data.
       one_hot: Bool, return the labels as one hot vectors (if True) or ints (if
         False).
       dtype: Output image dtype. One of [uint8, float32]. `uint8` output has