diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
index 1e7c4c869..ae1e5fdf1 100644
--- a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5319
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Enhancement: add more status counters to `restic copy`
 `restic copy` now produces more status counters in text format. The new counters
 are the number of blobs to copy, their size on disk and the number of packfiles
 used from the source repository. The additional statistics is only produced when
-the `--verbose` option is apecified.
+the `--verbose` option is specified.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5175
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5319