diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ed5f6cd1c3d..51e055786e3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Library
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 - Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
-  the _sre moduel.
+  the _sre module.
 
 - Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even
   when input list contains duplicates.