diff --git a/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py b/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
index 3d8b65b823f..f60e315a14f 100644
--- a/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
+++ b/libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/embeddings/base.py
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ class OpenAIEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
             except ImportError:
                 raise ValueError(
                     "Could not import transformers python package. "
-                    "This is needed in order to for OpenAIEmbeddings without "
+                    "This is needed for OpenAIEmbeddings to work without "
                     "`tiktoken`. Please install it with `pip install transformers`. "
                 )