diff --git a/xarray/core/dataarray.py b/xarray/core/dataarray.py
index cbd8d243385..15db6ed468e 100644
--- a/xarray/core/dataarray.py
+++ b/xarray/core/dataarray.py
@@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@ def to_dict(self, data: bool = True) -> dict:
         naming conventions.
 
         Converts all variables and attributes to native Python objects.
-        Useful for coverting to json. To avoid datetime incompatibility
+        Useful for converting to json. To avoid datetime incompatibility
         use decode_times=False kwarg in xarrray.open_dataset.
 
         Parameters
diff --git a/xarray/core/dataset.py b/xarray/core/dataset.py
index 2d15ff586e4..1aaad02b470 100644
--- a/xarray/core/dataset.py
+++ b/xarray/core/dataset.py
@@ -4667,7 +4667,7 @@ def to_dict(self, data=True):
         conventions.
 
         Converts all variables and attributes to native Python objects
-        Useful for coverting to json. To avoid datetime incompatibility
+        Useful for converting to json. To avoid datetime incompatibility
         use decode_times=False kwarg in xarrray.open_dataset.
 
         Parameters