diff --git a/pg_updatedicts b/pg_updatedicts
index ec3b3b2..bfdba29 100755
--- a/pg_updatedicts
+++ b/pg_updatedicts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ for my $d (@srcdirs) {
 
 	$enc = get_encoding $aff;
 	if (!$enc) {
-	    print STDERR "ERROR: no ecoding defined in $aff, ignoring\n";
+	    print STDERR "ERROR: no encoding defined in $aff, ignoring\n";
 	    next;
 	}