diff --git a/docs/topics/commands.rst b/docs/topics/commands.rst
index 41ad3158f..545a2f165 100644
--- a/docs/topics/commands.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/commands.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Default structure of Scrapy projects
 Before delving into the command-line tool and its sub-commands, let's first
 understand the directory structure of a Scrapy project.
 
-Even thought it can be modified, all Scrapy projects have the same file
+Though it can be modified, all Scrapy projects have the same file
 structure by default, similar to this::
 
    scrapy.cfg