diff --git a/libcontainer/SPEC.md b/libcontainer/SPEC.md
index fad1dd72..61511125 100644
--- a/libcontainer/SPEC.md
+++ b/libcontainer/SPEC.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ are required to be mounted within the rootfs that the runtime will setup.
 After a container's filesystems are mounted within the newly created 
 mount namespace `/dev` will need to be populated with a set of device nodes.
 It is expected that a rootfs does not need to have any device nodes specified
-for `/dev` witin the rootfs as the container will setup the correct devices
+for `/dev` within the rootfs as the container will setup the correct devices
 that are required for executing a container's process.
 
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