diff --git a/src/doc/tutorial.md b/src/doc/tutorial.md
index 304dc1fb5af43..d21f97f76ab0a 100644
--- a/src/doc/tutorial.md
+++ b/src/doc/tutorial.md
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ type was invalid because the size was infinite!
 
 An *owned box* (`~`) uses a dynamic memory allocation to provide the invariant
 of always being the size of a pointer, regardless of the contained type. This
-can be leverage to create a valid `List` definition:
+can be leveraged to create a valid `List` definition:
 
 ~~~
 enum List {