diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
index 3a45b5eb71..9db98a5028 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ ANALYZE [ VERBOSE ] [ <replaceable class="parameter">table_and_columns</replacea
   </para>
 
   <para>
-    By constrast, if the table being analyzed has inheritance children,
+    By contrast, if the table being analyzed has inheritance children,
     <command>ANALYZE</command> gathers two sets of statistics: one on the rows
     of the parent table only, and a second including rows of both the parent
     table and all of its children.  This second set of statistics is needed when