diff --git a/gnu/packages/file.scm b/gnu/packages/file.scm
index ccd6f6ff7d..ee7da784f7 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/file.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/file.scm
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
    (description
     "The file command is a file type guesser, a command-line tool that tells
 you in words what kind of data a file contains.  It does not rely on filename
-extentions to tell you the type of a file, but looks at the actual contents
+extensions to tell you the type of a file, but looks at the actual contents
 of the file.")
    (license bsd-2)
    (home-page "http://www.darwinsys.com/file/")))