diff --git a/doc/go1.5.html b/doc/go1.5.html
index 0f9a6c6493..8eaf5ef612 100644
--- a/doc/go1.5.html
+++ b/doc/go1.5.html
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ The old names 6g, 8g and so on are gone; instead there
is just one binary, accessible as go tool compile,
that compiles Go source into binaries suitable for the architecture and operating system
specified by $GOARCH and $GOOS.
-Simlarly, there is now one linker (go tool link)
+Similarly, there is now one linker (go tool link)
and one assembler (go tool asm).
The linker was translated automatically from the old C implementation,
but the assembler is a new native Go implementation discussed