diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index bf7ab9dbcce..cc72ba7e8ab 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ The first build may take a long time as maven downloads all the
 dependencies.
 
 The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is 
-neccessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
+necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
 for the tests to all pass successfully.