diff --git a/specification/modules/search.rst b/specification/modules/search.rst
index 6a545aa0..089953d2 100644
--- a/specification/modules/search.rst
+++ b/specification/modules/search.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Server Side Search
 The search API allows clients to perform full text search across events in all
 rooms that the user has been in, including those that they have left. Only
 events that the user is allowed to see will be searched, e.g. it won't include
-evnets in rooms that happened after you left.
+events in rooms that happened after you left.
 
 Client behaviour
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