diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/shebang-relative.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/shebang-relative.md
index dbda0db4c..e6ab9346f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/rl-next/shebang-relative.md
+++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/shebang-relative.md
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ prs: #5088
 description: {
 
 `nix-shell` shebangs use the script file's relative location to resolve relative paths to files passed as command line arguments, but expression arguments were still evaluated using the current working directory as a base path.
-The new behavior is that evalutations are performed relative to the script.
+The new behavior is that evaluations are performed relative to the script.
 
 }