diff --git a/make.html.markdown b/make.html.markdown
index e8cfd2b5..bf934c58 100644
--- a/make.html.markdown
+++ b/make.html.markdown
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ target to the most recent version of the source. Famously written over a
 weekend by Stuart Feldman in 1976, it is still widely used (particularly
 on Unix) despite many competitors and criticisms.
 
-There are many varieties of make in existance, this article assumes that
+There are many varieties of make in existence, this article assumes that
 we are using GNU make which is the standard on Linux.
 
 ```make