diff --git a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
index 98209fc7da9e5..155b5f272b426 100644
--- a/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/painless/painless-getting-started.asciidoc
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ POST hockey/player/_update_by_query
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 // CONSOLE
 
-Using the match operator (`==~`) you can update all the hockey players who's
+Using the match operator (`==~`) you can update all the hockey players whose
 names start with a consonant and end with a vowel:
 
 [source,js]