diff --git a/src/libstd/sync/rwlock.rs b/src/libstd/sync/rwlock.rs
index 0f3f4e50f7e321ec2e59d60a9fc9903a873ce29d..2edf02efc477c2cf26a2b0a45c6f78d41528a785 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sync/rwlock.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sync/rwlock.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 /// required that `T` satisfies [`Send`] to be shared across threads and
 /// [`Sync`] to allow concurrent access through readers. The RAII guards
 /// returned from the locking methods implement [`Deref`][] (and [`DerefMut`]
-/// for the `write` methods) to allow access to the contained of the lock.
+/// for the `write` methods) to allow access to the content of the lock.
 ///
 /// # Poisoning
 ///