diff --git a/package/heirloom-mailx/Config.in b/package/heirloom-mailx/Config.in
index c5b0bcbea7..ed2a519436 100644
--- a/package/heirloom-mailx/Config.in
+++ b/package/heirloom-mailx/Config.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_HEIRLOOM_MAILX
 	  importantly on embedded systems, as a mail composition
 	  program and SMTP client, in order to send e-mail from shell
 	  scripts. It supports SMTP authentication (login, plain,
-	  cram-md5), SMTPS, MIME encoding of attachements, and more.
+	  cram-md5), SMTPS, MIME encoding of attachments, and more.
 
 	  http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html