diff --git a/curriculum/challenges/english/10-coding-interview-prep/rosetta-code/word-frequency.md b/curriculum/challenges/english/10-coding-interview-prep/rosetta-code/word-frequency.md
index 70d2d054dc..760128e0a4 100644
--- a/curriculum/challenges/english/10-coding-interview-prep/rosetta-code/word-frequency.md
+++ b/curriculum/challenges/english/10-coding-interview-prep/rosetta-code/word-frequency.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Given a text string and an integer n, return the n most common words in the file
 
 # --instructions--
 
-Write a function to count the occurrences of each word and return the n most commons words along with the number of their occurences in decreasing frequency.
+Write a function to count the occurrences of each word and return the n most commons words along with the number of their occurrences in decreasing frequency.
 
 The function should return a 2D array with each of the elements in the following form: `[word, freq]`. `word` should be the lowercase version of the word and `freq` the number denoting the count.