diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e1946143..f5f70102 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ shadow-4.0.9 -> shadow-4.0.10						28-06-2005
   http://bugs.debian.org/99442
 - usermod: when relocating a user's home directory, don't fail and remove the new
   home directory if we can't remove the old home directory for some
-  reason; the results can be spectularly poort if, for instance, only
+  reason; the results can be spectularly poor if, for instance, only
   the rmdir() fails. Patch prepared by Timo Lindfors <lindi-spamtrap@newmail.com>.
   http://bugs.debian.org/166369
 - su: fix syslogs to be less ambiguous. Use old:new format instead of old-new