diff --git a/docs/examples/adddocsref.pl b/docs/examples/adddocsref.pl
index 5fe09ba40d..033dbf2124 100755
--- a/docs/examples/adddocsref.pl
+++ b/docs/examples/adddocsref.pl
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ for my $f (@ARGV) {
     while(<F>) {
         my $l = $_;
         if($l =~ /\/* $docroot/) {
-            # ignore preciously added refs
+            # ignore previously added refs
         }
         elsif($l =~ /^( *).*curl_easy_setopt\([^,]*, *([^ ,]*) *,/) {
             my ($prefix, $anchor) = ($1, $2);