diff --git a/bitbake/bin/bitbake b/bitbake/bin/bitbake
index 53185e58c6..384175d852 100755
--- a/bitbake/bin/bitbake
+++ b/bitbake/bin/bitbake
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def main():
     usage = """%prog [options] [package ...]
 
 Executes the specified task (default is 'build') for a given set of BitBake files.
-It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space seperated list of files to
+It expects that BBFILES is defined, which is a space separated list of files to
 be executed.  BBFILES does support wildcards.
 Default BBFILES are the .bb files in the current directory.""" )