diff --git a/src/kerassurgeon/surgeon.py b/src/kerassurgeon/surgeon.py
index 1e896a0..2aa0641 100644
--- a/src/kerassurgeon/surgeon.py
+++ b/src/kerassurgeon/surgeon.py
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ def _apply_delete_mask(self, node, inbound_masks):
             # to consider the inbound_delete_mask
             if inbound_masks is not None:
                 raise ValueError(
-                    'Channels cannot be deleted bedore Embedding '
+                    'Channels cannot be deleted before Embedding '
                     'layers because they change the number of '
                     'channels.'
                 )