diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a9f6149d..d8891d5a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This section contains some approachies which may prove useful.
 If the compositor crashes, a good starting point is to produce a backtrace by building with ASAN/UBSAN:
 
 ```
-meson -Db_sanitzise=address,undefined build/
+meson -Db_sanitize=address,undefined build/
 ninja -C build/
 ```