diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
index 4b93c28e35c672925d88e5460c0a1c4cb6da7ca7..9e162465b0cf024844a507b78c640ac759e7a0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.txt
@@ -167,4 +167,4 @@ driver specific data to and a pointer to the data itself.
 
 The watchdog_get_drvdata function allows you to retrieve driver specific data.
 The argument of this function is the watchdog device where you want to retrieve
-data from. The function retruns the pointer to the driver specific data.
+data from. The function returns the pointer to the driver specific data.