diff --git a/docs/7_sound/sound.rst b/docs/7_sound/sound.rst
index 71d8a4f..1311985 100644
--- a/docs/7_sound/sound.rst
+++ b/docs/7_sound/sound.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Making sounds
 The ``pygame.mixer`` module allows to play compressed OGG files or uncompressed WAV files.
 
 This checks the initialization parameters and prints the number of channels available.
-It opens a sound object and prays it::
+It opens a sound object and plays it::
 
     print('init =', pygame.mixer.get_init())
     print('channels =', pygame.mixer.get_num_channels())
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ Here is a code example:
 
 Which produces the following result.
 
-.. image:: sound1.png
\ No newline at end of file
+.. image:: sound1.png