diff --git a/lib/plugins/config/lang/en/lang.php b/lib/plugins/config/lang/en/lang.php
index 67d3ce51f7cc7697ccb0c5c2fc5f7c71e846d321..5031e84ca0c6a58cdadf402970857557b3e9ef21 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/config/lang/en/lang.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/config/lang/en/lang.php
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ $lang['camelcase']   = 'Use CamelCase for links';
 $lang['deaccent']    = 'How to clean pagenames';
 $lang['useheading']  = 'Use first heading for pagenames';
 $lang['sneaky_index'] = 'By default, DokuWiki will show all namespaces in the sitemap. Enabling this option will hide those where the user doesn\'t have read permissions. This might result in hiding of accessable subnamespaces which may make the index unusable with certain ACL setups.';
-$lang['hidepages']   = 'Hide pages matching this regular expressions from search, the sitemap and other automatic indexes';
+$lang['hidepages']   = 'Hide pages matching this regular expression from search, the sitemap and other automatic indexes';
 
 /* Authentication Settings */
 $lang['useacl']      = 'Use access control lists';