diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 8856d9c7b80..bc8f6d61d40 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ New Features
   Lucene's MMapDirectory will now mmap Lucene indexes in chunks of 16 GiB (instead of 1 GiB) starting
   from Java 19. Indexes closed while queries are running can no longer crash the JVM.
   Support for vectorized implementations of VectorUtil based on jdk.incubator.vector APIs was added
-  for eactly Java 22. Therefore, applications started with command line parameter
+  for exactly Java 22. Therefore, applications started with command line parameter
   "java --add-modules jdk.incubator.vector" will automatically use the new vectorized implementations
   if running on a supported platform (Java 20/21/22 on x86 CPUs with AVX2 or later or ARM NEON CPUs).
   This is an opt-in feature and requires explicit Java command line flag! When enabled, Lucene logs