diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 1175e6f..13bc23f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.modes.GCM` no longer allows
   truncation of tags by default. Previous versions of ``cryptography`` allowed
   tags to be truncated by default, applications wishing to preserve this
-  behavior (not reccomended) can pass the ``min_tag_length`` argument.
+  behavior (not recommended) can pass the ``min_tag_length`` argument.
 * Added :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.hkdf.HKDFExpand`.
 * Added :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.modes.CFB8` support
   for :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.algorithms.AES` and