diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
index c5b13d9bfd..8e6d0db00a 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ or the custom metrics API (for all other metrics).
   except that it works with raw values, not utilization values.
 
 * For object metrics and external metrics, a single metric is fetched, which describes
-  the object in question. This metric is compared compared to the target
+  the object in question. This metric is compared to the target
   value, to produce a ratio as above. In the `autoscaling/v2beta2` API
   version, this value can optionally be divided by the number of pods before the
   comparison is made.