diff --git a/modules/reindex/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexAction.java b/modules/reindex/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexAction.java
index f218d6ae8dfaa..f1ac681b59fdf 100644
--- a/modules/reindex/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexAction.java
+++ b/modules/reindex/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexAction.java
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public RestChannelConsumer prepareRequest(RestRequest request, NodeClient client
     @Override
     protected ReindexRequest buildRequest(RestRequest request) throws IOException {
         if (request.hasParam("pipeline")) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("_reindex doesn't support [pipeline] as a query parmaeter. "
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("_reindex doesn't support [pipeline] as a query parameter. "
                     + "Specify it in the [dest] object instead.");
         }
         ReindexRequest internal = new ReindexRequest(new SearchRequest(), new IndexRequest());
diff --git a/modules/reindex/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexActionTests.java b/modules/reindex/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexActionTests.java
index 1c33ccdaaa289..88fa31f423a21 100644
--- a/modules/reindex/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexActionTests.java
+++ b/modules/reindex/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/reindex/RestReindexActionTests.java
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ public void testPipelineQueryParameterIsError() throws IOException {
         request.withParams(singletonMap("pipeline", "doesn't matter"));
         Exception e = expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> action.buildRequest(request.build()));
 
-        assertEquals("_reindex doesn't support [pipeline] as a query parmaeter. Specify it in the [dest] object instead.", e.getMessage());
+        assertEquals("_reindex doesn't support [pipeline] as a query parameter. Specify it in the [dest] object instead.", e.getMessage());
     }
 
     public void testSetScrollTimeout() throws IOException {