diff --git a/docs/bugpattern/WithSignatureDiscouraged.md b/docs/bugpattern/WithSignatureDiscouraged.md
index 1bd1c3786978..6db52d3cf50a 100644
--- a/docs/bugpattern/WithSignatureDiscouraged.md
+++ b/docs/bugpattern/WithSignatureDiscouraged.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-`withSignature` replies on the string representation of internal classes in the
+`withSignature` relies on the string representation of internal classes in the
 javac implementation. Those string representations are not necessarily stable
 across versions of javac, and they can change when a method is annotated with
 type-use annotations.