diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
index 3f3ebcb6e5830..7e8e1b15654a0 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@ Categorical Concatenation
     b = pd.Categorical(["a", "b"])
     union_categoricals([a, b])
 
-- ``concat`` and ``append`` now can concat ``category`` dtypes wifht different
-``categories`` as ``object`` dtype (:issue:`13524`)
+- ``concat`` and ``append`` now can concat ``category`` dtypes with different ``categories`` as ``object`` dtype (:issue:`13524`)
 
 **Previous behavior**: