diff --git a/keras_contrib/applications/densenet.py b/keras_contrib/applications/densenet.py
index 6217061..e03c84c 100644
--- a/keras_contrib/applications/densenet.py
+++ b/keras_contrib/applications/densenet.py
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ def __conv_block(ip, nb_filter, bottleneck=False, dropout_rate=None, weight_deca
         x = Activation('relu')(x)
 
     x = Conv2D(nb_filter, (3, 3), kernel_initializer='he_uniform', padding='same', use_bias=False,
-               kenel_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(x)
+               kernel_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(x)
     if dropout_rate:
         x = Dropout(dropout_rate)(x)