diff --git a/docs/querying/basics.md b/docs/querying/basics.md
index 9ac37c041..4021a6580 100644
--- a/docs/querying/basics.md
+++ b/docs/querying/basics.md
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ While the following would be *incorrect*:
 
     sum(http_requests_total{method="GET"}) offset 5m // INVALID.
 
-The same works for range vectors. This returns the 5-minutes rate that
+The same works for range vectors. This returns the 5-minute rate that
 `http_requests_total` had a week ago:
 
     rate(http_requests_total[5m] offset 1w)