diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
index a58d6c717e..ef75bc9bb9 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
       id="kernelconfig-options"> For an exhaustive list of architecture
       dependent options and devices, see the <filename>NOTES</filename>
       file in the same directory as <filename>GENERIC</filename>. For
-      architecure independent options, see
+      architecture independent options, see
       <filename>/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES</filename>.</para>
 
     <note>