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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Support for [Elasticsearch 5](https://github.com/pelias/pelias/issues/461) is ne
 
 Version 3.11 or newer
 
-Some components of Pelias need a relational database, and Elasticsarch does not provide good
+Some components of Pelias need a relational database, and Elasticsearch does not provide good
 relational support. We use SQLite in these cases since it's simple to manage and quite performant.
 
 ## Libpostal