diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 72f703aaad0..82a18c6d670 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions.
 (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.)
 
 +++
-** The treatment of non-ACSII characters in search ranges has changed.
+** The treatment of non-ASCII characters in search ranges has changed.
 If a range in a regular expression or the arg of
 skip-chars-forward/backward starts with a unibyte character C and ends
 with a multibyte character C2, the range is divided into two: one is