diff --git a/pandas/io/pytables.py b/pandas/io/pytables.py
index be7b8dc6640ba..618254fee9259 100644
--- a/pandas/io/pytables.py
+++ b/pandas/io/pytables.py
@@ -3580,7 +3580,7 @@ def is_transposed(self) -> bool:
 
     @property
     def data_orientation(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:
-        """return a tuple of my permuted axes, non_indexable at the front"""
+        """return a tuple of my permutated axes, non_indexable at the front"""
         return tuple(
             itertools.chain(
                 [int(a[0]) for a in self.non_index_axes],