diff --git a/doc/man/salt.7 b/doc/man/salt.7
index dab5ab342c..a1be0b6149 100644
--- a/doc/man/salt.7
+++ b/doc/man/salt.7
@@ -13774,7 +13774,7 @@ work on all hosts, but some functions require (for example) a service to be inst
 Instead of trying to wrap much of the code in large try/except blocks you can use
 a simple decorator to do this. If the dependencies passed to the decorator don\(aqt
 exist, then the salt minion will remove those functions from the module on that host.
-If a "fallback_funcion" is defined, it will replace the function instead of removing it
+If a "fallback_function" is defined, it will replace the function instead of removing it
 .INDENT 0.0
 .INDENT 3.5
 .sp
@@ -13800,7 +13800,7 @@ def _fallback():
     \(aq\(aq\(aq
     return \(aq"dependency_that_sometimes_exists" needs to be installed for this function to exist\(aq
 
-@depends(\(aqdependency_that_sometimes_exists\(aq, fallback_funcion=_fallback)
+@depends(\(aqdependency_that_sometimes_exists\(aq, fallback_function=_fallback)
 def foo():
     \(aq\(aq\(aq
     Function with a dependency on the "dependency_that_sometimes_exists" module.
diff --git a/doc/ref/modules/index.rst b/doc/ref/modules/index.rst
index 8df249309a..523c47230b 100644
--- a/doc/ref/modules/index.rst
+++ b/doc/ref/modules/index.rst
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ work on all hosts, but some functions require (for example) a service to be inst
 Instead of trying to wrap much of the code in large try/except blocks you can use
 a simple decorator to do this. If the dependencies passed to the decorator don't
 exist, then the salt minion will remove those functions from the module on that host.
-If a "fallback_funcion" is defined, it will replace the function instead of removing it
+If a "fallback_function" is defined, it will replace the function instead of removing it
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ If a "fallback_funcion" is defined, it will replace the function instead of remo
         '''
         return '"dependency_that_sometimes_exists" needs to be installed for this function to exist'
 
-    @depends('dependency_that_sometimes_exists', fallback_funcion=_fallback)
+    @depends('dependency_that_sometimes_exists', fallback_function=_fallback)
     def foo():
         '''
         Function with a dependency on the "dependency_that_sometimes_exists" module.
diff --git a/salt/utils/decorators/__init__.py b/salt/utils/decorators/__init__.py
index 819ecb6de9..de67c0d0cc 100644
--- a/salt/utils/decorators/__init__.py
+++ b/salt/utils/decorators/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Depends(object):
 
             OR
 
-            @depends('modulename', fallback_funcion=function)
+            @depends('modulename', fallback_function=function)
             def test():
                 return 'foo'
         '''
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class Depends(object):
             )
         )
         self.dependencies = dependencies
-        self.fallback_funcion = kwargs.get('fallback_funcion')
+        self.fallback_function = kwargs.get('fallback_function')
 
     def __call__(self, function):
         '''
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class Depends(object):
         module = inspect.getmodule(inspect.stack()[1][0])
         for dep in self.dependencies:
             self.dependency_dict[dep].add(
-                (module, function, self.fallback_funcion)
+                (module, function, self.fallback_function)
             )
         return function
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class Depends(object):
         '''
         for dependency, dependent_set in cls.dependency_dict.iteritems():
             # check if dependency is loaded
-            for module, func, fallback_funcion in dependent_set:
+            for module, func, fallback_function in dependent_set:
                 # check if you have the dependency
                 if dependency in dir(module):
                     log.debug(
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ class Depends(object):
                     continue
 
                 try:
-                    if fallback_funcion is not None:
-                        functions[mod_key] = fallback_funcion
+                    if fallback_function is not None:
+                        functions[mod_key] = fallback_function
                     else:
                         del(functions[mod_key])
                 except AttributeError:
diff --git a/tests/integration/files/file/base/_modules/runtests_decorators.py b/tests/integration/files/file/base/_modules/runtests_decorators.py
index 6eeef9d18e..d0e8660d36 100644
--- a/tests/integration/files/file/base/_modules/runtests_decorators.py
+++ b/tests/integration/files/file/base/_modules/runtests_decorators.py
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ def depends():
 def missing_depends():
     return True
 
-@salt.utils.decorators.depends('time', fallback_funcion=_fallbackfunc)
+@salt.utils.decorators.depends('time', fallback_function=_fallbackfunc)
 def depends_will_fallback():
     ret = {'ret': True,
            'time': time.time()}
     return ret
 
-@salt.utils.decorators.depends('time123', fallback_funcion=_fallbackfunc)
+@salt.utils.decorators.depends('time123', fallback_function=_fallbackfunc)
 def missing_depends_will_fallback():
     ret = {'ret': True,
            'time': time.time()}