diff --git a/reference/mysqli/mysqli/set-charset.xml b/reference/mysqli/mysqli/set-charset.xml
index 8d56571c93..e340cc452b 100644
--- a/reference/mysqli/mysqli/set-charset.xml
+++ b/reference/mysqli/mysqli/set-charset.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="mysqli.set-charset" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>mysqli::set_charset</refname>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
    <para>
     This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using
     <function>mysqli::query</function> to execute <literal>SET NAMES ..</literal>
-    is not reccomended.
+    is not recommended.
    </para>
   </note>
  </refsect1>