diff --git a/doc/source/pyplots/plot_thresholds.py b/doc/source/pyplots/plot_thresholds.py
index 3f377309c..6b86fd5c8 100644
--- a/doc/source/pyplots/plot_thresholds.py
+++ b/doc/source/pyplots/plot_thresholds.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 s_soft = pywt.threshold(s, value=0.5, mode='soft')
 s_hard = pywt.threshold(s, value=0.5, mode='hard')
-s_garotte = pywt.threshold(s, value=0.5, mode='garotte')
+s_garrote = pywt.threshold(s, value=0.5, mode='garrote')
 s_firm1 = pywt.threshold_firm(s, value_low=0.5, value_high=1)
 s_firm2 = pywt.threshold_firm(s, value_low=0.5, value_high=2)
 s_firm3 = pywt.threshold_firm(s, value_low=0.5, value_high=4)
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(10, 4))
 ax[0].plot(s, s_soft)
 ax[0].plot(s, s_hard)
-ax[0].plot(s, s_garotte)
-ax[0].legend(['soft (0.5)', 'hard (0.5)', 'non-neg. garotte (0.5)'])
+ax[0].plot(s, s_garrote)
+ax[0].legend(['soft (0.5)', 'hard (0.5)', 'non-neg. garrote (0.5)'])
 ax[0].set_xlabel('input value')
 ax[0].set_ylabel('thresholded value')
 
diff --git a/pywt/_thresholding.py b/pywt/_thresholding.py
index 598fcf53d..286f61179 100644
--- a/pywt/_thresholding.py
+++ b/pywt/_thresholding.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def soft(data, value, substitute=0):
 
 
 def nn_garrote(data, value, substitute=0):
-    """Non-negative Garotte."""
+    """Non-negative Garrote."""
     data = np.asarray(data)
     magnitude = np.absolute(data)
 
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ def less(data, value, substitute=0):
                         'hard': hard,
                         'greater': greater,
                         'less': less,
-                        'garotte': nn_garrote}
+                        'garrote': nn_garrote,
+                        # misspelled garrote for backwards compatibility
+                        'garotte': nn_garrote,
+                        }
 
 
 def threshold(data, value, mode='soft', substitute=0):
@@ -90,7 +93,7 @@ def threshold(data, value, mode='soft', substitute=0):
     less than the value param are replaced with `substitute`. Data values with
     absolute value greater or equal to the thresholding value stay untouched.
 
-    ``garotte`` corresponds to the Non-negative garrote threshold [2]_, [3]_.
+    ``garrote`` corresponds to the Non-negative garrote threshold [2]_, [3]_.
     It is intermediate between ``hard`` and ``soft`` thresholding.  It behaves
     like soft thresholding for small data values and approaches hard
     thresholding for large data values.
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ def threshold(data, value, mode='soft', substitute=0):
         Numeric data.
     value : scalar
         Thresholding value.
-    mode : {'soft', 'hard', 'garotte', 'greater', 'less'}
+    mode : {'soft', 'hard', 'garrote', 'greater', 'less'}
         Decides the type of thresholding to be applied on input data. Default
         is 'soft'.
     substitute : float, optional
@@ -148,7 +151,7 @@ def threshold(data, value, mode='soft', substitute=0):
     array([ 0. ,  0. ,  0. ,  0.5,  1. ,  1.5,  2. ])
     >>> pywt.threshold(data, 2, 'hard')
     array([ 0. ,  0. ,  2. ,  2.5,  3. ,  3.5,  4. ])
-    >>> pywt.threshold(data, 2, 'garotte')
+    >>> pywt.threshold(data, 2, 'garrote')
     array([ 0.        ,  0.        ,  0.        ,  0.9       ,  1.66666667,
             2.35714286,  3.        ])
     >>> pywt.threshold(data, 2, 'greater')