diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/util.rs b/src/libstd/rt/util.rs
index b5b76f6af66..a1f867fd5f3 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/util.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/util.rs
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ pub fn abort(msg: &str) -> ! {
 knew were lands...",
         4 => "
 There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into
-limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most
+limitless vacuum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most
 maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity
 which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my
 memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.",