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 ## Overview
 
 Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI
-interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra
+interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an interface, Cobra
 simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
 
 Inspired by go, go-Commander, gh and subcommand, Cobra improves on these by