diff --git a/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/index.md b/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/index.md
index 9dbf4f3a93..44546a4ab0 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/index.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/replication-controller/index.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ replication controller are automatically replaced if they fail, get deleted, or
 For example, your pods get re-created on a node after disruptive maintenance such as a kernel upgrade.
 For this reason, we recommend that you use a replication controller even if your application requires
 only a single pod. You can think of a replication controller as something similar to a process supervisor,
-but rather then individual processes on a single node, the replication controller supervises multiple pods
+but rather than individual processes on a single node, the replication controller supervises multiple pods
 across multiple nodes.
 
 Replication Controller is often abbreviated to "rc" or "rcs" in discussion, and as a shortcut in