diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 7985a2deb1eed8..0cf3d5bfb1b240 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:@localhost:5450/calendso"
 # Use the same one as DATABASE_URL if you're not using a connection pooler
 DATABASE_DIRECT_URL="postgresql://postgres:@localhost:5450/calendso"
 INSIGHTS_DATABASE_URL=
-# Optionnal. In some cases it might make sense (e.g. when creating and dropping databases is not allowed on cloud-hosted databases) to manually define the connection string and name 
+# Optional. In some cases it might make sense (e.g. when creating and dropping databases is not allowed on cloud-hosted databases) to manually define the connection string and name 
 # of the database that should be used as the shadow database for migrate dev. In such a case you can create a dedicated database that should be used as the shadow database
 #SHADOW_DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:@localhost:5450/calendsoshadow"