diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/editors/emacs.xml b/nixos/modules/services/editors/emacs.xml
index 05f87df43bc..302aa1ed7c4 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/editors/emacs.xml
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/editors/emacs.xml
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-modify-via-packageOverrides
     If you want, you can tweak the Emacs package itself from your
     <filename>emacs.nix</filename>. For example, if you want to have a
     GTK 3-based Emacs instead of the default GTK 2-based binary and remove the
-    automatically generated <filename>emacs.desktop</filename> (useful is you
+    automatically generated <filename>emacs.desktop</filename> (useful if you
     only use <command>emacsclient</command>), you can change your file
     <filename>emacs.nix</filename> in this way:
    </para>