diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
index 70c556d39b10..58e1264009e8 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ def add_axes(self, *args, **kwargs):
             cbook.warn_deprecated(
                 "3.3",
                 message="Calling add_axes() without argument is "
-                "deprecated. You may want to use add_suplot() "
+                "deprecated. You may want to use add_subplot() "
                 "instead.")
             return