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@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ deprecated and has been removed as of Consul 1.1. -->
 
 ### Health Checks
 
-You can add health checks to your service definition. Health checks perform severaly safety functions, such as allowing a web balancer to gracefully remove failing nodes and allowing a database
+You can add health checks to your service definition. Health checks perform several safety functions, such as allowing a web balancer to gracefully remove failing nodes and allowing a database
 to replace a failed secondary. The health check funcationality is strongly integrated in the DNS interface, as well. If a service is failing its health check or a node has any failing system-level check, the DNS interface will omit that
 node from any service query.