diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3f29f38e..a53b63d0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ shadow-4.0.4 => shadow-4.0.4.1						14-01-2004
 shadow-4.0.3 => shadow-4.0.4						14-01-2004	
 
 *** general:
-- added missing information about -f options in groupadd usage mesage
+- added missing information about -f options in groupadd usage message
   (document this also in man page),
 - removed TCFS support (tcfs is dead),
 - convert all po/*.po files to utf-8,