diff --git a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
index b3db3875a4..f88f9103b3 100644
--- a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ parsers that do file extraction.
 
 Inspection of reassembled data is done in chunks. The size of these
 chunks is set with ``toserver_chunk_size`` and ``toclient_chunk_size``.
-To avoid making the borders predictable, the sizes van be varied by
+To avoid making the borders predictable, the sizes can be varied by
 adding in a random factor.
 
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