diff --git a/beets/dbcore/types.py b/beets/dbcore/types.py
index 90c1d7c2e..7f3b2e39e 100644
--- a/beets/dbcore/types.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/types.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class Type(object):
         http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
         https://docs.python.org/2/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite-and-python-types
 
-        Flexible fields have the type afinity `TEXT`. This means the
+        Flexible fields have the type affinity `TEXT`. This means the
         `sql_value` is either a `buffer` or a `unicode` object` and the
         method must handle these in addition.
         """