diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 8d3f20f257c..dd2968131b3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ new features have been added:
 codecs
 ------
 
-The :mod:`~encodings.mbcs` codec has be rewritten to handle correctly
+The :mod:`~encodings.mbcs` codec has been rewritten to handle correctly
 ``replace`` and ``ignore`` error handlers on all Windows versions.  The
 :mod:`~encodings.mbcs` codec now supports all error handlers, instead of only
 ``replace`` to encode and ``ignore`` to decode.