diff --git a/proposals/p2006.md b/proposals/p2006.md
index 728b3f2f7634..4c9ac39e4eb9 100644
--- a/proposals/p2006.md
+++ b/proposals/p2006.md
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ implicitly converting to the nominated type.
 > Details:
 > [Value representation and customization](/docs/design/values.md#value-representation-and-customization)
 
-Carbon will also allow customizing the behavior of a deference operation on a
+Carbon will also allow customizing the behavior of a dereference operation on a
 type to allow building "smart pointers" or other pointer-like types in the
 library. This will be done in a similar fashion to overloading other operators,
 where the overloaded operation returns some other pointer that is then