diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a2b230dc1b1..0b34293ab21 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
 
 - Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set
-  absurbly high.
+  absurdly high.
 
 Library
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