diff --git a/examples/transformerconfigs/README.md b/examples/transformerconfigs/README.md
index fd1c041ea..54bbd7eed 100644
--- a/examples/transformerconfigs/README.md
+++ b/examples/transformerconfigs/README.md
@@ -175,4 +175,4 @@ metadata:
   annotations:
     foo.k8s.io/bar: baz
 ```
-Kustomize supports escaping special characters in path, e.g `matadata/annotations/foo.k8s.io\/bar`
+Kustomize supports escaping special characters in path, e.g `metadata/annotations/foo.k8s.io\/bar`