diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 1c4b0828..1b0173be 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-05-10  Darshit Shah <darnir@gmail.com>  (tiny change)
+
+	* wget.texi (No of tries): Fix typo to make it clear that --tries
+	option sets number of tries not retries.
+	Reported by: Hauke Hoffman <haukebjoernhoffman@googlemail.com>
+
 2013-04-28  Giuseppe Scrivano  <gscrivano@gnu.org>
 
 	* wget.texi (Types of Files...): Document --accept-regex,
diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 039f7009..c2230a9c 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -550,10 +550,10 @@ IPs.
 
 @cindex retries
 @cindex tries
-@cindex number of retries
+@cindex number of tries
 @item -t @var{number}
 @itemx --tries=@var{number}
-Set number of retries to @var{number}.  Specify 0 or @samp{inf} for
+Set number of tries to @var{number}. Specify 0 or @samp{inf} for
 infinite retrying.  The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception
 of fatal errors like ``connection refused'' or ``not found'' (404),
 which are not retried.