diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index be2062fe662886..0e4b3d034861e8 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -4537,7 +4537,7 @@ changes:
   * `withFileTypes` {boolean} **Default:** `false`
 * Returns: {string[]|Buffer[]|fs.Dirent[]}
 
-Reads the contents of the director.
+Reads the contents of the directory.
 
 See the POSIX readdir(3) documentation for more details.