diff --git a/docs/tracing.md b/docs/tracing.md
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 containerd supports OpenTelemetry tracing since v1.6.0.
 Tracing currently targets only gRPC calls.
 
-## Sending traces from containerd deamon
+## Sending traces from containerd daemon
 
 By configuring `io.containerd.tracing.processor.v1.otlp` plugin.
 containerd daemon can send traces to the specified OpenTelemetry endpoint.