diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a4e22f8b8d..943047a840 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 	A number of defconfigs have been extended to generate complete
 	system images using genimage.
 
-	Linux: Authomatically patch timeconst.pl for <3.9 kernels,
+	Linux: Automatically patch timeconst.pl for <3.9 kernels,
 	which isn't compatible with modern perl versions, breaking the
 	build when building on recent (Fedora 23, Debian
 	Testing/Unstable, ..) distributions.