diff --git a/x/auth/tx/README.md b/x/auth/tx/README.md
index 5b1b1c0961d9..4fba6e3f7c3d 100644
--- a/x/auth/tx/README.md
+++ b/x/auth/tx/README.md
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ The `x/auth/tx` module provides a convenient CLI command for decoding and encodi
 #### `encode`
 
 The `encode` command encodes a transaction created with the `--generate-only` flag or signed with the sign command.
-The transaction is seralized it to Protobuf and returned as base64.
+The transaction is serialized it to Protobuf and returned as base64.
 
 ```bash
 $ simd tx encode tx.json