diff --git a/doc/performance.txt b/doc/performance.txt
index 410532e5..d52ea17b 100644
--- a/doc/performance.txt
+++ b/doc/performance.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Event Handlers
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 The first one is the Event Handler which takes care of notifying the server
-that one of the connections is ready to send or recieve. As you can see,
+that one of the connections is ready to send or receive. As you can see,
 every OS has at least the select() call which has some limitations.
 
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