diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index d480be27542c3e..617fadd83f8fd3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ Removed
   internals.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`92651`.)
 
-* Leagcy Unicode APIs has been removed. See :pep:`623` for detail.
+* Legacy Unicode APIs has been removed. See :pep:`623` for detail.
 
    * :c:macro:`PyUnicode_WCHAR_KIND`
    * :c:func:`PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE`