diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 91761614273a192a1e23bbdac99b0ee495d06d36..c37b0219f9517421efef769025cbffb09918d275 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -2836,7 +2836,7 @@ use the least loaded nodes in selected partitions.
 If a job allocation contains more resources than will be used for launching
 tasks (e.g. if whole nodes are allocated to a job), then rather than 
 distributing a job's tasks evenly across it's allocated nodes, pack them as
-tightly as possible on thsee nodes.
+tightly as possible on these nodes.
 For example, consider a job allocation containing two \fBentire\fR nodes with
 eight CPUs each.
 If the job starts ten tasks across those two nodes without this option, it will