diff --git a/doc/source/cli/index.rst b/doc/source/cli/index.rst
index 467cbe0049d8..70df266db9c4 100644
--- a/doc/source/cli/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/cli/index.rst
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ daemonize correctly after starting up.
 WSGI Services
 -------------
 
-Starting in the Pike release, the prefered way to deploy the nova api is in a
+Starting in the Pike release, the preferred way to deploy the nova api is in a
 wsgi container (uwsgi or apache/mod_wsgi). These are the wsgi entry points to
 do that.