diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 1f3136b3f2..479a3acfbb 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ Each of these states allow for the same four possible actions.
    supported by the libxl hypervisor driver.)
 
 QEMU/KVM supports the ``on_poweroff`` and ``on_reboot`` events handling the
-``destroy`` and ``restart`` actions, but the combiatnion of ``on_poweroff`` set
+``destroy`` and ``restart`` actions, but the combination of ``on_poweroff`` set
 to ``restart`` and ``on_reboot`` set to ``destroy`` is forbidden.
 
 The ``on_crash`` event supports these additional actions :since:`since 0.8.4` .