diff --git a/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst b/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
index 7b588ce2cad..b6afb1cdacc 100644
--- a/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Pytest supports several ways to run and select tests from the command-line or fr
     pytest test_mod.py
 
 When passing a path as a positional argument, pytest does not recursively
-searches when given a file basename. If you want to pass a path to a file, you
+search when given a file basename. If you want to pass a path to a file, you
 must pass either a relative path or an absolute path. Otherwise, consider the
 below keyword expressions instead.