diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 31ec784b9bc..7820213ab6f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Extension Modules
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 - Bug #1521375: When the code in ctypes.util.find_library was
-  run with root priviledges, it could overwrite or delete
+  run with root privileges, it could overwrite or delete
   /dev/null in certain cases; this is now fixed.
 
 - Bug #1467450: On Mac OS X 10.3, RTLD_GLOBAL is now used as the