diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/README.md b/cluster/gce/gci/README.md
index 583a9b322fd..9cec32c2b55 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/README.md
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/README.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ There are three ways to specify an image used by each testing suite: `image`,
 
   * `image_family` should be used if you always want to use latest image in the
     same family. Tests will start to use new images once COS releases
-    new image. This is not predictable and test can potentially be broken becase of this. The probability of a
+    new image. This is not predictable and test can potentially be broken because of this. The probability of a
     breakage due to the OS itself is low for LTS or stable image, but high for dev or beta image.
     If things went wrong, it will be hard to rollback
     images using `image_regex` and `image_family`. e.g: