diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-waf.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-waf.txt
index ffc004c290..101cddf1f1 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-waf.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-waf.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ will automatically download the tarball from this location.
 
 On line 10, we tell Buildroot what options to enable for libfoo.
 
-On line 11, we tell Buildroot the depednencies of libfoo.
+On line 11, we tell Buildroot the dependencies of libfoo.
 
 Finally, on line line 13, we invoke the +waf-package+
 macro that generates all the Makefile rules that actually allows the