diff --git a/website/index.jade b/website/index.jade
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--- a/website/index.jade
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ include _includes/_mixins
         +grid-col("third").o-card
             +h(2) Fastest in the world
             p
-                |  spaCy excells at large-scale information extraction tasks.
+                |  spaCy excels at large-scale information extraction tasks.
                 |  It's written from the ground up in carefully memory-managed
                 |  Cython. Independent research has confirmed that spaCy is
                 |  the fastest in the world.  If your application needs to