diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4d26f6f..9cddadb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Please check the MD5 to make sure the files are completed.
 md5sum consolidated.00.pth
 md5sum tokenizer.model
 
-# Once verified, you can delete the splited files.
+# Once verified, you can delete the split files.
 rm consolidated.00.pth-split*
 ```