diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc
index a6838e5e..6be4aa62 100644
--- a/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc
+++ b/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ previously generated by *btrfs send*. The received subvolumes are stored to
 If '--dump' option is specified, *btrfs receive* will only do the validation of
 the stream, and print the stream metadata, one operation per line.
 
-*btrfs receive* will fail int the following cases:
+*btrfs receive* will fail in the following cases:
 
 1. receiving subvolume already exists