diff --git a/docs/plugins/badfiles.rst b/docs/plugins/badfiles.rst
index d084dca82..6ff369ff5 100644
--- a/docs/plugins/badfiles.rst
+++ b/docs/plugins/badfiles.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ This one will run checks on a specific album::
 
     beet bad album_id:1234
 
-Here is an example where the FLAC decoder was signals a corrupt file::
+Here is an example where the FLAC decoder signals a corrupt file::
 
     beet bad title::^$
     /tank/Music/__/00.flac: command exited with status 1