diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
index 400450460de..258a26c5168 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Indexes:
     after a database crash if there were unwritten changes.
     Also, changes to hash indexes are not replicated over warm standby
     replication after the initial base backup, so they
-    give wrong anwers to queries that subsequently use them.
+    give wrong answers to queries that subsequently use them.
     For these reasons, hash index use is presently discouraged.
    </para>
   </caution>