diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
index 95e6afae8a158..bb109adf76f41 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ to save information after compiling a crate to be reused when recompiling the
 crate, improving re-compile times. This takes a path to a directory where
 incremental files will be stored.
 
-Using incremental compilation inhibits certain optimizations (for example by increasing the amount of codegen units) and is therefore not recommend for release builds.
+Using incremental compilation inhibits certain optimizations (for example by increasing the amount of codegen units) and is therefore not recommended for release builds.
 
 ## inline-threshold