diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8725db4a..b2b16167 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ route:
 
   # The child route trees.
   routes:
-  # This routes performs a regular expression match on alert labels to
+  # This route performs a regular expression match on alert labels to
   # catch alerts that are related to a list of services.
   - matchers:
     - service=~"^(foo1|foo2|baz)$"