diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
index 9678a4c5282cd98b602487e7edcdd631856c3f3f..e2493ad5f63b8b46f678e409b253fe797f88a891 100644
--- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
+++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ Add the new remote to your local repository on your local machine:
 $ git remote add fork https://github.com/<your user name>/rails.git
 ```
 
-You may have cloned your local repository from rails/rails or you may have cloned from your forked repository. To avoid ambigity the following git commands assume that you have made a "rails" remote that points to rails/rails.
+You may have cloned your local repository from rails/rails or you may have cloned from your forked repository. To avoid ambiguity the following git commands assume that you have made a "rails" remote that points to rails/rails.
 
 ```bash
 $ git remote add rails https://github.com/rails/rails.git