diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt
index ac8d20b83322..fd74ff26376e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ the settings should remain the exception.
 The timestamp becomes a multiple field structure. It lists the number
 of bytes transferred, the number of samples processed and the number
 of samples rendered/grabbed. All these values can be used to determine
-the avarage bitrate, figure out if the ring buffer needs to be
+the average bitrate, figure out if the ring buffer needs to be
 refilled or the delay due to decoding/encoding/io on the DSP.
 
 Note that the list of codecs/profiles/modes was derived from the