diff --git a/docs/guides/src/asciidoc/hellomvc.asc b/docs/guides/src/asciidoc/hellomvc.asc
index 954f1f5869..6c871e118b 100644
--- a/docs/guides/src/asciidoc/hellomvc.asc
+++ b/docs/guides/src/asciidoc/hellomvc.asc
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public class RootConfiguration {
 }
 ----
 
-The `@ComponentScan` is loading all configuration within the same package (and child packags) as `RootConfiguration`. Since <<security-config-java,SecurityConfig>> is in this package, it will be loaded with our existing setup and there is nothing more to do.
+The `@ComponentScan` is loading all configuration within the same package (and child packages) as `RootConfiguration`. Since <<security-config-java,SecurityConfig>> is in this package, it will be loaded with our existing setup and there is nothing more to do.
 
 NOTE: Had <<security-config-java,SecurityConfig>> not been loaded, we could have used an `@Import(SecurityConfig)` above the class definition of <<root-configuration-java,RootConfiguration>> or added <<security-config-java,SecurityConfig>> as one of the results for `getRootConfigClasses()`.