diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
index 8db8c39811..c53aa4a37d 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml
@@ -2174,7 +2174,7 @@ corresponding lines for each field (this has drawbacks - see method 3).
   Unfortunately, this option is buggy with
   <application>MEncoder</application>; it ought to work well with
   <application>MEncoder G2</application>, but that is not here yet. You
-  might experience crahes. Anyway, the purpose of <option> -vf
+  might experience crashes. Anyway, the purpose of <option> -vf
   tfields</option> is to create a full frame out of each field, which
   makes the framerate 60000/1001. The advantage of this approach is that no
   data is ever lost; however, since each frame comes from only one