diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The following commands can be used to perform the initial checkout of PHPUnit:
     git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit.git
     cd phpunit
 
-To retrieve PHPUnit's dependencies, you can use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/download/). If you do not have Composer installed, you can download the latest PHARr with the following command:
+To retrieve PHPUnit's dependencies, you can use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/download/). If you do not have Composer installed, you can download the latest PHAR with the following command:
 
     curl -O http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar