diff --git a/vllm/config.py b/vllm/config.py
index 4655430dba511..fb322eddc48a1 100644
--- a/vllm/config.py
+++ b/vllm/config.py
@@ -1820,7 +1820,7 @@ def _get_and_verify_max_len(
                     "original_max_position_embeddings"]
             derived_max_model_len *= scaling_factor
 
-    if bert_config and "max_seq_lenght" in bert_config:
+    if bert_config and "max_seq_length" in bert_config:
         derived_max_model_len = bert_config["max_seq_length"]
 
     # If the user specified a max length, make sure it is smaller than the