diff --git a/docs/proposals/scheduling/697-descheduler/README.md b/docs/proposals/scheduling/697-descheduler/README.md
index 3fd821caf..4f753c538 100644
--- a/docs/proposals/scheduling/697-descheduler/README.md
+++ b/docs/proposals/scheduling/697-descheduler/README.md
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Here is the descheduler workflow.
   - List all `ResourceBindings`.
   - Find the non-desired ones, i.e., whose desired replicas are less than ready replicas, and then request scheduler-estimator to get the replicas that need to be evicted.
   - Get the unscheduable pods number from every cluster scheduler-estimator.
-  - Modify scheduling result in `resourcebindings.spec.clusters` for eviction, i.e., substract unscheduable pods number in the relevant field `resourcebindings.spec.clusters`.
+  - Modify scheduling result in `resourcebindings.spec.clusters` for eviction, i.e., subtract unscheduable pods number in the relevant field `resourcebindings.spec.clusters`.
 - Scheduler: Watch the `ResourceBinding` and begin to scale scheduling.
 
 ### API Change