diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 44d60e90..3d0ceecc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ shadow-4.0.14 -> shadow-4.0.15						13-03-2006
     tries exceeded,
   - always prints the number of tries in the syslog entry.
   - add special handling for PAM_ABORT
-  - add an entry to failog, as when USE_PAM is not defined. (#53164)
+  - add an entry to faillog, as when USE_PAM is not defined. (#53164)
   - changed pam_end to PAM_END. This is certainly was a mistake.  PAM_END is
     pam_close_seesion + pam_end. Here, the session is still not open, we
     don't have to close it.