diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7d38937b..18da2d4e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Cheshire encoding supports:
 - booleans
 - keywords (qualified and unqualified)
 - numbers (Integer, Long, BigInteger, BigInt, Double, Float, Ratio,
-  Short, Byte, primatives)
+  Short, Byte, primitives)
 - clojure.lang.PersistentQueue
 
 ### Java classes