diff --git a/challenges/basic-javascript.json b/challenges/basic-javascript.json
index 1096e02868..a76622afeb 100644
--- a/challenges/basic-javascript.json
+++ b/challenges/basic-javascript.json
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@
         "<code>g</code> means that we want to search the entire string for this pattern.",
         "<code>i</code> means that we want to ignore the case (uppercase or lowercase) when searching for the pattern.",
         "<code>Regular expressions</code> are usually surrounded by <code>/</code> symbols.",
-        "Let's try selecting all the occurances of the word <code>and</code> in the string <code>George Boole and Alan Turing went to the shop and got some milk</code>. We can do this by replacing the <code>.+</code> part of our regular expression with the current <code>regular expression</code> with the word <code>and</code>."
+        "Let's try selecting all the occurrences of the word <code>and</code> in the string <code>George Boole and Alan Turing went to the shop and got some milk</code>. We can do this by replacing the <code>.+</code> part of our regular expression with the current <code>regular expression</code> with the word <code>and</code>."
       ],
       "tests":[
         "assert(test==2, 'Your <code>regular expression</code> should find two occurrences of the word <code>and</code>');",