diff --git a/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md b/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md
index 8d6ddaf61d..97569451d6 100644
--- a/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md
+++ b/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ It is okay to have multiple clusters per availability zone, though on balance we
 Reasons to prefer fewer clusters are:
 
   - improved bin packing of Pods in some cases with more nodes in one cluster (less resource fragmentation).
-  - reduced operational overhead (though the advantage is diminished as ops tooling and processes matures).
+  - reduced operational overhead (though the advantage is diminished as ops tooling and processes mature).
   - reduced costs for per-cluster fixed resource costs, e.g. apiserver VMs (but small as a percentage
     of overall cluster cost for medium to large clusters).