diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e650f5ee..db83c4b8 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ bash-completion (1.2)
   * Speed up installed rpm package completion on SUSE, based on work by
     Marco Poletti (Alioth: #312021).
   * Improve sourcing snippets from completion dirs.
-  * Drop support for bash < 3.  The compatiblity global variables $bashN,
+  * Drop support for bash < 3.  The compatibility global variables $bashN,
     $default, $dirnames, $filenames, $compopt, $nospace, $bashdefault, and
     $plusdirs have been dropped too.  3rd party completions should switch
     to using the complete/compgen features directly, and BASH_VERSINFO