diff --git a/src/mir/index.md b/src/mir/index.md
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--- a/src/mir/index.md
+++ b/src/mir/index.md
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ only reference places and constants. Moreover, when you use a place,
 we indicate whether we are **copying it** (which requires that the
 place have a type `T` where `T: Copy`) or **moving it** (which works
 for a place of any type). So, for example, if we had the expression `x
-= a + b + c` in Rust, that would get compile to two statements and a
+= a + b + c` in Rust, that would get compiled to two statements and a
 temporary:
 
 ```mir