diff --git a/_overviews/tutorials/scala-for-java-programmers.md b/_overviews/tutorials/scala-for-java-programmers.md
index ada65a08f7..3ed8305c2a 100644
--- a/_overviews/tutorials/scala-for-java-programmers.md
+++ b/_overviews/tutorials/scala-for-java-programmers.md
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ French-speaking part of Switzerland use the same conventions.)
 
 Java's class libraries define powerful utility classes, such as
 `Date` and `DateFormat`. Since Scala interoperates
-seemlessly with Java, there is no need to implement equivalent
+seamlessly with Java, there is no need to implement equivalent
 classes in the Scala class library--we can simply import the classes
 of the corresponding Java packages: