diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d777a95b301..8015894e3e5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ Library
 - Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
 
 - Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
-  with the cylce garbage collector.
+  with the cycle garbage collector.
 
 - Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.