diff --git a/reference/curl/functions/curl-setopt.xml b/reference/curl/functions/curl-setopt.xml
index 439643e7ab..181d19cf65 100644
--- a/reference/curl/functions/curl-setopt.xml
+++ b/reference/curl/functions/curl-setopt.xml
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@
            <entry>
             The name of a callback function where the callback function takes
             three parameters. The first is the cURL resource, the second is a
-            file-descriptior resource, and the third is length. Return the
+            file-descriptor resource, and the third is length. Return the
             string containing the data.
            </entry>
            <entry>