diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
index 877b107f7..df9e8f0 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/Kconfig
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@
 	  For Freescale Book-E processors, this is a number between 0 and 63.
 	  For other Book-E processors, this is a number between 0 and 3.
 
-	  The value can be overidden by the wdt_period command-line parameter.
+	  The value can be overridden by the wdt_period command-line parameter.
 
 # PPC64 Architecture