diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4e623a15d8e..5e8bc0c54c0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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-- Issue #16255: subrocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell,
+- Issue #16255: subprocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell,
   instead of /bin/sh.
 
 - Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the