diff --git a/pages/common/tar.md b/pages/common/tar.md
index b8eb807da..f9cb7717f 100644
--- a/pages/common/tar.md
+++ b/pages/common/tar.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 `tar xjf {{source.tar.bz2}}`
 
-- create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression programm
+- create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression program
 
 `tar caf {{target.tar.xz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}`