diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index e84c0d3ec53..cefbe84fc8e 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ respects display actions specified by 'display-buffer-alist' and
 'display-buffer-overriding-action'.
 
 ** New 'flex' completion style
-An implementation of popular "flx/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
+An implementation of popular "flex/fuzzy/scatter" completion which
 matches strings where the pattern appears as a subsequence.  Put
 simply, makes "foo" complete to both "barfoo" and "frodo".  Add 'flex'
 to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it.