diff --git a/docs/ref/files/storage.txt b/docs/ref/files/storage.txt
index a1b83cca6a..84ef00c897 100644
--- a/docs/ref/files/storage.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/files/storage.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The Storage Class
 
         Lists the contents of the specified path, returning a 2-tuple of lists;
         the first item being directories, the second item being files. For
-        storage systems that aren't ale to provide such a listing, this will
+        storage systems that aren't able to provide such a listing, this will
         raise a ``NotImplementedError`` instead.
 
     .. method:: open(name, mode='rb')