diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 7587493..5ef3dd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -147,5 +147,5 @@
 Other notes:
 
 Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
-the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you seeked an odd number of bytes
+the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
 into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.