diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e23006a..3491d98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Detects the language spoken in the uploaded file. For longer files it only proce
 Returns a json with following fields:
 
 - **detected_language**
-- **langauge_code**
+- **language_code**
 
 ## Build
 
diff --git a/app/webservice.py b/app/webservice.py
index c77bd0f..e6c58b7 100644
--- a/app/webservice.py
+++ b/app/webservice.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def language_detection(
     detected_lang_code = max(probs, key=probs.get)
     
     result = { "detected_language": tokenizer.LANGUAGES[detected_lang_code],
-              "langauge_code" : detected_lang_code }
+              "language_code" : detected_lang_code }
 
     return result