diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index fd788ef6e98..75e662beecf 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-2.0.0 release
       The H5TB functions were not correctly creating the FILL_INFO attribute
       for tables. This has been fixed by using the field offsets array from
       the call to H5TBAget_fill instead of using the compound type member
-      offsets from the H5Tget_member_offset call for each coumpound type.
+      offsets from the H5Tget_member_offset call for each compound type.
 
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs