diff --git a/docs/manual/properties.html b/docs/manual/properties.html
index d7efc8e30..b1d8c75a9 100644
--- a/docs/manual/properties.html
+++ b/docs/manual/properties.html
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ public void setAttr(Resource r) { ... }
 </pre>
 
   <p>then the syntax can be used to pass in resource subclasses
-    preciously defined as references like</p>
+    previously defined as references like</p>
 <pre>
   &lt;url url="http://ant.apache.org/" id="anturl"/&gt;
   &lt;my:task attr="${ant.refid:anturl}"/&gt;