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 While most Spark operations work on RDDs containing any type of objects, a few special operations are
 only available on RDDs of key-value pairs.
-The most common ones are distibuted "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
+The most common ones are distributed "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
 by a key.
 
 In Scala, these operations are automatically available on RDDs containing
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ documentation](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#ha
 
 While most Spark operations work on RDDs containing any type of objects, a few special operations are
 only available on RDDs of key-value pairs.
-The most common ones are distibuted "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
+The most common ones are distributed "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
 by a key.
 
 In Java, key-value pairs are represented using the 
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ documentation](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#ha
 
 While most Spark operations work on RDDs containing any type of objects, a few special operations are
 only available on RDDs of key-value pairs.
-The most common ones are distibuted "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
+The most common ones are distributed "shuffle" operations, such as grouping or aggregating the elements
 by a key.
 
 In Python, these operations work on RDDs containing built-in Python tuples such as `(1, 2)`.