diff --git a/docs/internals/layout_in_storage.rst b/docs/internals/layout_in_storage.rst
index a9de8f6c9..b1b89a6a3 100644
--- a/docs/internals/layout_in_storage.rst
+++ b/docs/internals/layout_in_storage.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The type of the value is ``uint256``, so it uses a single slot.
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 ``bytes`` and ``string`` are encoded identically.
-In general, the encoding is similar to ``byte1[]``, in the sense that there is a slot for the array itself and
+In general, the encoding is similar to ``bytes1[]``, in the sense that there is a slot for the array itself and
 a data area that is computed using a ``keccak256`` hash of that slot's position.
 However, for short values (shorter than 32 bytes) the array elements are stored together with the length in the same slot.