diff --git a/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/serialization.md b/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/serialization.md
index e32460a073..b063be513f 100644
--- a/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/serialization.md
+++ b/akka-docs/src/main/paradox/serialization.md
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ Since the release of Artery, Akka internals do not rely on Java serialization an
 @@@ warning
 
 Please note Akka 2.5 by default does not use any Java Serialization for its own internal messages, unlike 2.4 where
-by default it sill did for a few of the messages. If you want an 2.4.x system to communicate with a 2.5.x series, for
+by default it still did for a few of the messages. If you want an 2.4.x system to communicate with a 2.5.x series, for
 example during a rolling deployment you should first enable `additional-serialization-bindings` on the old systems.
 You must do so on all nodes participating in a cluster, otherwise the mis-aligned serialization
 configurations will cause deserialization errors on the receiving nodes. These additional serialization bindings are