diff --git a/src/doc/guide-ownership.md b/src/doc/guide-ownership.md
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--- a/src/doc/guide-ownership.md
+++ b/src/doc/guide-ownership.md
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ lifetime, and so if you elide a lifetime (like `&T` instead of `&'a T`), Rust
 will do three things to determine what those lifetimes should be.
 
 When talking about lifetime elision, we use the term 'input lifetime' and
-'output lifetime'. An 'input liftime' is a lifetime associated with a parameter
+'output lifetime'. An 'input lifetime' is a lifetime associated with a parameter
 of a function, and an 'output lifetime' is a lifetime associated with the return
 value of a function. For example, this function has an input lifetime: