diff --git a/nifty5/data_objects/numpy_do.py b/nifty5/data_objects/numpy_do.py
index edd5476b8d2eef85d5cf26ac893580a83d5ba308..ed0d96de8f3e855310bf1e5516909b1cb05b7913 100644
--- a/nifty5/data_objects/numpy_do.py
+++ b/nifty5/data_objects/numpy_do.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def ensure_default_distributed(arr):
 
 
 def absmax(arr):
-    return np.linalg.norm(arr.rehape(-1), ord=np.inf)
+    return np.linalg.norm(arr.reshape(-1), ord=np.inf)
 
 
 def norm(arr, ord=2):