diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
index 648483c1..14b5ca97 100644
--- a/redis.conf
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ lua-time-limit 5000
 # A slave of a failing master will avoid to start a failover if its data
 # looks too old.
 #
-# There is no simple way for a slave to actually have a exact measure of
+# There is no simple way for a slave to actually have an exact measure of
 # its "data age", so the following two checks are performed:
 #
 # 1) If there are multiple slaves able to failover, they exchange messages