fix typo (closes #26378)

diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index cc45e6e489d75aa962711969cbf222c6e2c828a1..9fe2128616683159ee930a40e39d9797983ac5e7 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ that limit.
 Repetitions such as ``*`` are :dfn:`greedy`; when repeating a RE, the matching
 engine will try to repeat it as many times as possible. If later portions of the
 pattern don't match, the matching engine will then back up and try again with
-few repetitions.
+fewer repetitions.
 
 A step-by-step example will make this more obvious.  Let's consider the
 expression ``a[bcd]*b``.  This matches the letter ``'a'``, zero or more letters