diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index cd24612df49..42255742eb0 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ But that advice is backwards for the changelog. We follow the
 our changelog, and use towncrier to generate it for each release. As a
 contributor, all that means is that you need to add a file to the
 ``salt/changelog`` directory, using the ``<issue #>.<type>`` format. For
-instanch, if you fixed issue 123, you would do:
+instance, if you fixed issue 123, you would do:
 
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