diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8986cd0..ce9034b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ maintaining third-party libraries and reserves the right to remove
 them from the repository in case the author does not respond to
 possible bugs in it.
 
-The contributed files should be licensed with an recogniced OpenSource
+The contributed files should be licensed with a recognised OpenSource
 license. If the license is different that the official one, you should
 contribute the license file in this way: