diff --git a/modules/reference/pages/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group.adoc b/modules/reference/pages/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group.adoc
index 1c9496b34c..b5d3d2fcdc 100644
--- a/modules/reference/pages/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group.adoc
+++ b/modules/reference/pages/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group.adoc
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ member to the group, then each of the three members will consume two
 partitions. This allows you to horizontally scale consuming of topics.
 
 The unit of scaling is a single partition. If you add more consumers to a group
-than there are are total partitions to consume, then some consumers will be
+than there are total partitions to consume, then some consumers will be
 idle. More commonly, you have many more partitions than consumer group members
 and each member consumes a chunk of available partitions. One scenario where
 you may want more members than partitions is if you want active standby's to
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ group, g
 |-v, --verbose |- |Enable verbose logging.
 |===
 
-// end::single-source[]
\ No newline at end of file
+// end::single-source[]