diff --git a/prometheus/doc.go b/prometheus/doc.go
index f60710f..1fdef9e 100644
--- a/prometheus/doc.go
+++ b/prometheus/doc.go
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 // Metrics
 //
 // The number of exported identifiers in this package might appear a bit
-// overwhelming. Hovever, in addition to the basic plumbing shown in the example
+// overwhelming. However, in addition to the basic plumbing shown in the example
 // above, you only need to understand the different metric types and their
 // vector versions for basic usage.
 //